ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)1993
Resistance training during preadolescence. Issues and controversies.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 1993. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The effectiveness of resistance training in children. A meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 1996Pooled it
- Weight-bearing bones are more sensitive to physical exercise in boys than in girls during pre- and early puberty: a cross-sectional study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2008Trial
- The Effect of Peak Height Velocity on Strength and Power Development of Young Athletes: A Scoping Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Review
- Effects of Therapies Involving Plyometric-Jump Training on Physical Fitness of Youth with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Which exercise interventions are more helpful in treating primary obesity in young adults? A systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2023Article
- Exercise-associated prevention of adult cardiovascular disease in children and adolescents: monocytes, molecular mechanisms, and a call for discovery.Pediatric research · 2020Review
- Within Session Sequence of Balance and Plyometric Exercises Does Not Affect Training Adaptations with Youth Soccer Athletes.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2017Article
- Effectiveness of Traditional Strength vs. Power Training on Muscle Strength, Power and Speed with Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Review
- A 3-year school-based exercise intervention improves muscle strength - a prospective controlled population-based study in 223 children.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2014Article
- Effects of resistance training on tendon mechanical properties and rapid force production in prepubertal children.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2014Article
- Optimum anthropometric criteria for ideal body composition related fitness.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2010Article
- A school-based exercise intervention program increases muscle strength in prepubertal boys.International journal of pediatrics · 2010Article
- Strength training in children and adolescents: raising the bar for young athletes?Sports health · 2009Article
- Effects of a daily school based physical activity intervention program on muscle development in prepubertal girls.European journal of applied physiology · 2009Article
- Exercise training in obese children and adolescents: current concepts.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2005Review
- Assessment and interpretation of isokinetic muscle strength during growth and maturation.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2003Review
- Safe exercise prescription for children and adolescents.Paediatrics & child health · 1998Article
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Abstract
High intensity resistance training appears to be effective in increasing strength in preadolescents. Children make similar relative (percentage improvement), but smaller absolute, strength gains compared with adolescents and young adults in response to similar resistance training programmes. Resistance training appears to have little if any effect on muscle size, and strength gains during training have been associated with increases in levels of neuromuscular activation and changes in intrinsic contractile characteristics of muscle. Although unsubstantiated, improved motor coordination probably also contributes to the increase in strength, especially for more complex strength manoeuvres. On the basis of limited information, training-induced strength gains are lost during detraining, and the decay in strength has been associated with a reduction in neuromuscular activation. Short term resistance training appears to have no effect on somatic growth (height or weight) and body composition, and no proven positive influence on sports performance, injury rate or recovery from injury during preadolescence. Weightlifting has proved injurious to some children, especially when unsupervised and without instruction in proper weightlifting technique and load selection. In contrast, the risk of injury from prudently prescribed and closely supervised resistance training appears to be low during preadolescence. Lastly, short term resistance training appears to have no detrimental effect during preadolescence on either cardiorespiratory fitness or resting blood pressure.
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