Relationship between sprint performance of front crawl swimming and muscle fascicle length in young swimmers

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 550-556

  Nasirzade, Alireza ^a   Ehsanbakhsh, Alireza ^b   Ilbeygi, Saeed ^a   Sobhkhiz, Azadeh ^c   Argavani, Hamed ^a   Aliakbari, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRJAND   (Iran)

^b BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fascicle length; Front crawl; Muscle architecture; Sprint swimming; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905729057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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