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H M Alessio1, A E Hagerman, B K Fulkerson

  • 1Physical Education, Health, and Sport Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA. alessih@muohio.edu

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
|September 20, 2000
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