SynthesisSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2020
Effects of Resistance Training on Physical Fitness in Healthy Children and Adolescents: An Umbrella Review.
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- An Update on Secular Trends in Physical Fitness of Children and Adolescents from 1972 to 2015: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Pooled it
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- The Era of Resistance Training as a Primary Form of Physical Activity for Physical Fitness and Health in Youth Has Come.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Effects of After-School Basketball Program on Physical Fitness and Cardiometabolic Health in Prepubertal Boys.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Specific Physical Performances of Young Male Basketball Players in Palestine: An Assessment by Maturity Status.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Resistance training effects on pubertal children with a risk of developing pediatric dynapenia.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- The efficacy of physical exercise interventions on mental health, cognitive function, and ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents with ADHD: an umbrella review.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundOver the past decades, an exponential growth has occurred with regards to the number of scientific publications including meta-analyses on youth resistance training (RT). Accordingly, it is timely to summarize findings from meta-analyses in the form of an umbrella review.
objectivesTo systematically review and summarise the findings of published meta-analyses that investigated the effects of RT on physical fitness in children and adolescents.
designSystematic umbrella review of meta-analyses. DATA SOURCES: Meta-analyses were identified using systematic literature searches in the databases PubMed, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR SELECTING META-ANALYSES: Meta-analyses that examined the effects of RT on physical fitness (e.g., muscle strength, muscle power) in healthy youth (≤ 18 years).
resultsFourteen meta-analyses were included in this umbrella review. Eleven of these meta-analyses reported between-subject effect sizes which are important to eliminate bias due to growth and maturation. RT produced medium-to-large effects on muscle strength, small-to-large effects on muscle power, small-to-medium effects on linear sprint, a medium effect on agility/change-of-direction speed, small-to-large effects on throwing performance, and a medium effect on sport-specific enhancement. There were few consistent moderating effects of maturation, age, sex, expertise level, or RT type on muscle strength and muscle power across the included meta-analyses. The analysed meta-analyses showed low-to-moderate methodological quality (AMSTAR2) as well as presented evidence of low-to-very low quality (GRADE).
conclusionThis umbrella review proved the effectiveness of RT in youth on a high evidence level. The magnitude of effects varies according to the respective outcome measure and it appears to follow the principle of training specificity. Larger effect sizes were found for strength-related outcome measures. Future studies should consistently report data on participants' maturational status. More research is needed with prepubertal children and girls, irrespective of their maturational status.
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