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Is vertical jump height a body size-independent measure of muscle power?

Goran Markovic School of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Slobodan Jaric Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1355-1363 | Accepted 20 Sep 2006, Published online: 31 Aug 2007

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