Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth
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Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth

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eBook - ePub

Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth

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About this book

Physical fitness affects our ability to function and be active. At poor levels, it is associated with such health outcomes as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Physical fitness testing in American youth was established on a large scale in the 1950s with an early focus on performance-related fitness that gradually gave way to an emphasis on health-related fitness. Using appropriately selected measures to collected fitness data in youth will advance our understanding of how fitness among youth translates into better health.In Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth, the IOM assesses the relationship between youth fitness test items and health outcomes, recommends the best fitness test items, provides guidance for interpreting fitness scores, and provides an agenda for needed research.The report concludes that selected cardiorespiratory endurance, musculoskeletal fitness, and body composition measures should be in fitness surveys and in schools. Collecting fitness data nationally and in schools helps with setting and achieving fitness goals and priorities for public health at an individual and national level.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780309262873
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  5. SUMMARY
  6. 1 INTRODUCTION
  7. 2 MEASURING FITNESS IN YOUTH
  8. 3 METHODOLOGY FOR SELECTION AND INTERPRETATION OF HEALTH-RELATED FITNESS MEASURES IN YOUTH
  9. 4 HEALTH-RELATED FITNESS MEASURES FOR YOUTH: BODY COMPOSITION
  10. 5 HEALTH-RELATED FITNESS MEASURES FOR YOUTH: CARDIORESPIRATORY ENDURANCE
  11. 6 HEALTH-RELATED FITNESS MEASURES FOR YOUTH: MUSCULOSKELETAL FITNESS
  12. 7 HEALTH-RELATED FITNESS MEASURES FOR YOUTH: FLEXIBILITY
  13. 8 FITNESS MEASURES FOR A NATIONAL YOUTH SURVEY
  14. 9 FITNESS MEASURES FOR SCHOOLS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
  15. 10 FUTURE NEEDS
  16. APPENDIXES