The reliability of accelerative sprint performance: Does starting position matter?

Journal of Human Movement Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 183-191

  Moir, G ^a   Glaister, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning; Reproducibility; Sprint start

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; RUNNING; SPORT; STANDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 9144264358     PISSN: 03067297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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