Aerobic Exercise Training Improves Cardiopulmonary Fitness among Firefighters

Year 2010, Volume: 7 Issue: 4, 352 - 358, 01.12.2010

Shehab Mahmoud Abd El-kader

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Aerobic Exercise Training Improves Cardiopulmonary Fitness among Firefighters

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