The physical demands placed on dancers from current choreography and performance
schedules make their physiology and fitness just as important as skill development …

Aim To analyse aerobic fitness and its relationship with sport participation, exercise training
and habitual physical activity (HPA) during youth. Methods Studies were located through …

Many children strive to attain excellence in sport. However, although talent identification and
development programmes have gained popularity in recent decades, there remains a lack of …

The start of a new Olympic cycle offers a fresh chance for individuals and nations to excel at
the highest level in sport. Most countries attempt to develop systematic structures to identify …

The objective was to estimate the contribution of experience, body size and maturity status to
variation in the functional capacities of adolescent football (soccer) players. The sample …

Background: Participants in many youth sports are commonly combined into age groups
spanning 2 years. Aim: The study compared variation in size, function, sport-specific skill …

The question whether youth competition should be related to chronological age (CA) is not a
new one.[l-5l As long ago as 1901, Cramptonlll suggested that a more realistic criterion than …

The aim of this paper was to describe the anthropometric and physiological characteristics of
young soccer players (14-17 years old) which were associated with their being successful or …

The ontogenetic development of motor function and performance capacities in childhood
and adolescence are well described (for reviews see Shephard, 1982; Malina and …

Abstract Gravina, L, Gil, SM, Ruiz, F, Zubero, J, Gil, J, and Irazusta, J. Anthropometric and
physiological differences between first team and reserve soccer players aged 10-14 years at …