Methods of prescribing relative exercise intensity: Physiological and practical considerations

Sports Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 613-625

  Mann, Theresa ^a   Lamberts, Robert Patrick ^a   Lambert, Michael Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LACTIC ACID;

ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; BLOOD; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART RATE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; PROCEDURES;

ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EXERCISE TEST; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, HUMAN; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 84879613981     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-013-0045-x     Document Type: Review

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