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- Title
Aerobic Fitness and Trainability in Healthy Youth: Gaps in Our Knowledge.
- Authors
Armstrong, Neil; McNarry, Melitta
- Abstract
Peak oxygen uptake (...O2) is widely recognized as the criterion measure of young people's aerobic fitness. Peak ...O2 in youth has been assessed and documented for over 75 years but the interpretation of peak ...O2 and its trainability are still shrouded in controversy. Causal mechanisms and their modulation by chronological age, biological maturation and sex remain to be resolved. Furthermore, exercise of the intensity and duration required to determine peak ...O2 is rarely experienced by most children and adolescents. In sport and in everyday life young people are characterized by intermittent bouts of exercise and rapid changes in exercise intensity. In this context it is the transient kinetics of pulmonary ...O2 (p...O2), not peak ...O2, which best describe aerobic fitness. There are few rigorously determined and appropriately analyzed data from young people's p...O2 kinetics responses to step changes in exercise intensity. Understanding of the trainability of p...O2 kinetics is principally founded on comparative studies of trained and untrained youth and much remains to be elucidated. This paper reviews peak ...O2, p...O2 kinetics, and their trainability in youth. It summarizes "what we know," identifies significant gaps in our knowledge, raises relevant questions, and indicates avenues for future research.
- Publication
Pediatric Exercise Science, 2016, Vol 28, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0899-8493
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1123/pes.2015-0251