Warm-up strategies of professional soccer players: Practitioners' perspectives

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1393-1401

  Towlson, Christopher ^a   Midgley, Adrian W ^b   Lovell, Ric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Current practice; Situational factors; Survey; Theoretical reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNET; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCIENCE; SOCCER; WARM UP;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCIENCE; SOCCER; WARM-UP EXERCISE;

EID: 84884204639     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2013.792946     Document Type: Article

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