Training for Cross Country Skiing

Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science, Cross Country Skiing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 62-100

  Rusko, Heikki ^a  

^a KIHU Research Institute for Olympic Sports   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross country skiing; Fatigue recovery; Overload principle; Training; Training load

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956705797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470693834.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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