ArticleBiology of sport2023
Do maturation, anthropometrics and leg muscle qualities influence repeated change of direction performance in adolescent boys and girls?
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- The effect of repeated-sprint training on performance outcomes in youth athletes: a meta-analysis.PeerJ · 2026Pooled it
- Sex-Related Differences in Adolescent Physical Fitness, Physical Activity Levels and Enjoyment: A Two-Year Follow-Up of Italian Middle School Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Analysis of Motor and Perceptual-Cognitive Performance in Young Soccer Players: Insights into Training Experience and Biological Maturation.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Investigating the effects of previous injury on subsequent training loads, physical fitness, and injuries in youth female basketball players.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Temporal Trends of Linear Speed and Change of Direction Performance in Italian Children.Journal of human kinetics · 2025Article
- Biological maturity vs. relative age: Independent impact on physical performance in male and female youth handball players.Biology of sport · 2024Article
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Abstract
The ability to change direction rapidly is a key fitness quality especially in invasive sports where young players perform approximately 300 changes of direction in a game. There is currently limited understanding of how anthropometric characteristics and maturation status influence change of direction ability in adolescent. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation is to assess the influence of anthropometrics and maturation status on change of direction ability in young people. The study involved 706 adolescents (367 girls) aged 14-19-year-old attending the same high school in Northern Italy. Stature, body mass, seated height and leg length were measured to determine the anthropometrics and maturation status of the participants. Repeated change of direction ability (10 × 5 m shuttle run test), lower limb power and muscle strength were evaluated using field tests from the Eurofit test battery. Maturity offset was calculated separately for boys and girls, in accord with the equation proposed by Mirwald. Preliminary analysis with 10 × 5 m as a dependent variable and sex and PHV as a fixed factor, suggests a significant difference between sex (p < 0.001; d = 0.35) but not with PHV (p = 0.986; d = 0.000) and interaction PHV × sex (p = 0.836; d = 0.000). Our results suggested that repeated change of direction performance was influenced by anthropometrics, maturation and muscle qualities in adolescent boys and girls.
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