Rowing: The RowPerfect Ergometer: A training aid for on‐water single scull rowing

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 123-134

  Elliott, Bruce ^a   Birkett, Olivia ^a   Lyttle, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Western Australian Institute of Sport   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coefficient of multiple determination; Ergometer; Force curves; Rowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008756775     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140208522791     Document Type: Article

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