Body composition of elite female players in five different sports games

Journal of Human Kinetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 207-215

  Mala, Lucia ^a   Maly, Tomas ^a   Zahalka, František ^a   Bunc, Vaclav ^a   Kaplan, Ales ^a   Jebavy, Radim ^a   Tuma, Martin ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Athletes; Bioimpedance analysis; Fat mass; Fat free mass; Females; Testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927759585     PISSN: 16405544     EISSN: 18997562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hukin-2015-0021     Document Type: Article

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