Skeletal muscle mass and muscular function in master swimmers is related to training distance

Rejuvenation Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 415-421

  Abe, Takashi ^a   Kojima, Kosuke ^a   Stager, Joel M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT FREE MASS; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; LOWER LEG; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE THICKNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THIGH; TIME; TRAINING; TRUNK; ULTRASOUND; WALKING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BODY COMPOSITION; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; SWIMMING; THIGH; WALKING;

EID: 84912002246     PISSN: 15491684     EISSN: 15578577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/rej.2014.1563     Document Type: Article

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