Pediatric Fitness
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Pediatric Fitness

Secular Trends and Geographic Variability

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Pediatric Fitness

Secular Trends and Geographic Variability

About this book

Over the years, there has been much controversy regarding whether today's children and adolescents are fitter than their peers of the past and whether they are fitter if they live in the more affluent than the less affluent countries. This publication starts by examining data cumulated since the late 1950s on secular trends and geographic variability in pediatric fitness test performances of children and adolescents from 23 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Middle East. There is evidence that there has been a global decline in pediatric aerobic performance in recent decades, relative stability in anaerobic performance, and that the best performing children come from northern and central Europe. It finishes by considering possible causes, including whether declines in aerobic performance are the result of distributional or 'across-the-board' declines, and whether increases in obesity alone can explain the declines in aerobic performance. Physical educators, exercise/sport scientists, exercise physiologists, personal trainers, pediatricians, medical practitioners and public health providers will find useful information in this book on secular trends and geographic variability in pedatric fitness.

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Yes, you can access Pediatric Fitness by G. R. Tomkinson,T. S. Olds, D. J. Caine,A. P. Hills,T. Noakes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Pediatric Medicine. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
S. Karger
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9783805581776
eBook ISBN
9783318013962
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Pediatric Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. Aerobic Fitness:What Are We Measuring?
  7. Anaerobic Fitness Tests: What Are We Measuring?
  8. Secular Changes in Pediatric Aerobic Fitness Test Performance:The Global Picture
  9. Physical Fitness of Children and Adolescents in the United States: Status and Secular Change
  10. Fitness of Canadian Children:Range from Traditional Inuit to Sedentary City Dwellers, and Assessment of Secular Changes
  11. Who Are the Eurofittest?
  12. Changes in Eurofit Test Performance of Estonian and Lithuanian Children and Adolescents (1992 –2002)
  13. Evolution and Variability in Fitness Test Pe formance of Asian Children and Adolescents
  14. Secular Changes in Aerobic Fitness Test Performance of Australasian Children and Adolescents
  15. Prevalence,Trends and Environmental Influences on Child and Youth Phy ical Activity
  16. Evolution of Maximal O ygen Uptake in Children
  17. Distributional Changes in the Performance of Australian Children on Tests of Cardiorespiratory Endurance
  18. Declines in Aerobic Fitness:Are They Only Due to Increasing Fatness?
  19. Subject Index