Trial reportBritish journal of sports medicine2000
Aerobic responses of prepubertal boys to two modes of training.
Trial report in British journal of sports medicine, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Process evaluation of school-based high-intensity interval training interventions for children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- School-based high-intensity interval training programs in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Small-Sided Games vs. Conventional Endurance Training on Endurance Performance in Male Youth Soccer Players: A Meta-Analytical Comparison.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2019Pooled it
- Dynamics of Change in Aerobic Capacity in 7-12 Year-Old Children Playing Soccer in Relation to Training Load.Journal of human kinetics · 2026Article
- Effect of eight-week high-intensity interval training versus moderate-intensity continuous training programme on body composition, cardiometabolic risk factors in sedentary adolescents.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Associations between Physical Activity Patterns, Screen Time and Cardiovascular Fitness Levels in Swedish Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Relationship between Anthropometric, Physical and Hormonal Parameters among Pre-Pubertal Handball Players.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Effect of somatic maturity on the aerobic and anaerobic adaptations to sprint interval training.Physiological reports · 2020Article
- Modeling The Economic And Health Impact Of Increasing Children's Physical Activity In The United States.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2017Article
- Muscle fiber characteristics, satellite cells and soccer performance in young athletes.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2014Article
- Health-related physical fitness for children with cerebral palsy.Journal of child neurology · 2014Review
- Comparative study of aerobic performance between football and judo groups in prepubertal boys.Asian journal of sports medicine · 2013Article
- The association between aerobic fitness and physical activity in children and adolescents: the European youth heart study.European journal of applied physiology · 2010Article
- Fat and carbohydrate metabolism during submaximal exercise in children.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2008Review
- Endurance training and aerobic fitness in young people.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2003Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the effects of two contrasting eight week training programmes on the aerobic performance of 39 prepubescent boys (mean age 10.1 years).
methodsAll boys were volunteer subjects from three city schools and the schools were matched by a health related behaviour questionnaire. All of the boys were assessed as Tanner stage one for genitalia and pubic hair development. Criterion laboratory tests included peak VO2 as assessed by an incremental discontinuous treadmill test to voluntary exhaustion. Submaximal measurements of heart rate, minute ventilation (VE) and VO2 were also recorded during the treadmill test. One of the schools provided the control group (n = 14), and boys from the other schools followed two contrasting training programmes. The first was a sprint interval running programme (n = 12) comprising 10 second and 30 second sprints, and the second a continuous cycle ergometer programme (n = 13) maintaining a heart rate in the range 80-85% of maximum for 20 minutes on a Monark cycle ergometer. After eight weeks training three times a week, the three groups were retested.
resultsThere were no significant differences in peak VO2 (p>0.05) with training in either of the groups. Neither were there significant changes in any of the submaximal variables VO2, VE, or heart rate (p>0.05).
conclusionThe findings of this study indicate that neither eight week sprint interval running nor continuous cycle ergometer training programmes significantly improve maximal or submaximal indicators of the aerobic performance of prepubertal boys.
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