| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : illustrations |
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Medicine and sport science ; vol. 50 |
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Medicine and sport science ; vol. 50.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Tomkinson, G.R.; Olds, T.S. -- Aerobic fitness: what are we measuring? / Armstrong, N.; Welsman, J.R. -- Anaerobic fitness tests: what are we measuring? / Van Praagh, E. -- Secular changes in pediatric aerobic fitness test performance: the global picture -- Tomkinson, G.R.; Olds, T.S. -- Physical fitness of children and adolescents in the United States: status and secular change / Malina, R.M. -- Fitness of Canadian children: range from traditional Inuit to sedentary city dwellers, and assessment of secular changes / Shephard, R.J. -- Who are the Eurofittest? / Tomkinson, G.R.; Olds, T.S.; Borms, J. -- Changes in Eurofit test performance of Estonian and Lithuanian children and adolescents (1992-2002) / Jürimäe, T. [and others] -- Evolution and variability in fitness test performance of Asian children and adolescents / Macfarlane, D.J.; Tomkinson, G.R |
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Secular changes in aerobic fitness test performance of Australasian children and adolescents / Tomkinson, G.R.; Olds, T.S. -- Prevalence, trends and environmental influences on child and youth physical activity -- Salmon, J.; Timperio, A. -- Evolution of maximal oxygen uptake in children / Rowland, T.W. -- Distributional changes in the performance of Australian children on tests of cardiorespiratory endurance / Dollman, J.; Olds, T.S. -- Declines in aerobic fitness: are they only due to increasing fatness? / Olds, T.S.; Ridley, K.; Tomkinson, G.R |
| Summary |
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 i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Physical fitness for children -- Cross-cultural studies
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Physical fitness.
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Children.
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Treadmill exercise tests.
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Physical Fitness
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Adolescent
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Child
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Exercise Test
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children (people by age group)
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Exercise.
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Treadmill exercise tests.
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Physical fitness.
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Children.
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Physical fitness for children.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tomkinson, Grant R.
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Olds, Tim.
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S. Karger (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9783318013962 |
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331801396X |
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