ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)1992
Effectiveness of training programmes for prepubescent children.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 1992. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- School-based physical activity programs for promoting physical activity and fitness in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Aerobic responses of prepubertal boys to two modes of training.British journal of sports medicine · 2000Trial
- Responses of young girls to two modes of aerobic training.British journal of sports medicine · 1997Trial
- Which Factors Influence Running Gait in Children and Adolescents? A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Development of Aerobic Fitness in Young Team Sport Athletes.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Review
- Comparative study of aerobic performance between football and judo groups in prepubertal boys.Asian journal of sports medicine · 2013Article
- Influence of training status and exercise modality on pulmonary O(2) uptake kinetics in pre-pubertal girls.European journal of applied physiology · 2010Article
- Contribution of school programmes to physical activity levels and attitudes in children and adults.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2005Review
- Endurance training and aerobic fitness in young people.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2003Review
- Assessing physiological responses to training in young children.British journal of sports medicine · 1997Article
- Age and sex differences in physical inactivity among Ontario teenagers.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
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Abstract
Early investigators suggested that endurance training had little influence upon the aerobic function of the prepubescent child. It is shown that the twin explanations of this supposed phenomenon (a high intrinsic level of physical activity and an immaturity of biochemical systems) have little foundation. Moreover, critical examination of the original experiments shows a number of problems of experimental design, often including an inadequate sample size, a lack of control group, an inappropriate pattern of training relative to the initial fitness of the child, and too short a period of observation. Recent, well-designed studies all show a response in prepubescent children. Comparison with adults is hampered by difficulties in matching training intensity, but there is no immediate evidence that the training response of the prepubescent child is less than in an older person. The main basis for the increase of oxygen transport seems an increase of cardiac stroke volume. Plainly, the development of athletic performance and the attack upon cardiac risk factors can be begun before puberty, although in the average prepubescent it may be more important for the school programmes to develop positive, lifelong attitudes, than to maximise aerobic function.
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