The acute effect of upper-body complex training on power output of martial art athletes as measured by the bench press throw exercise

Journal of Human Kinetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 167-175

  Liossis, Loudovikos Dimitrios ^a   Forsyth, Jacky ^b   Liossis, Ceorge ^c   Tsolakis, Charilaos ^d  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE   (Greece)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Charagionis SA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Myotest; Potentiation; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903633218     PISSN: 16405544     EISSN: 18997562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/hukin-2013-0079     Document Type: Article

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