Interpreting physical performance in professional soccer match-play: Should we be more pragmatic in our approach?

Sports Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 655-663

  Carling, Christopher ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre de Formation   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ENDURANCE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCCER; TASK PERFORMANCE; REVIEW;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FATIGUE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; SOCCER; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880912295     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-013-0055-8     Document Type: Article

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