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T Hortobágyi1, P Devita, J Money

  • 1Biomechanics Laboratory, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA. hortobagyit@mail.ecu.edu

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
|July 11, 2001
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