Resistance training for children and adolescents

PR Stricker, AD Faigenbaum, TM McCambridge… - …, 2020 - publications.aap.org
Background Resistance training and strength training are synonymous terms used to denote
a component of sport and exercise training that is designed to enhance muscular strength …

Sports specialization, part II: alternative solutions to early sport specialization in youth athletes

GD Myer, N Jayanthi, JP DiFiori… - Sports …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Context: Many coaches, parents, and children believe that the best way to develop elite
athletes is for them to participate in only 1 sport from an early age and to play it year-round …

How to deal with COVID-19 epidemic-related lockdown physical inactivity and sedentary increase in youth? Adaptation of Anses' benchmarks

I Margaritis, S Houdart, Y El Ouadrhiri, X Bigard… - Archives of public …, 2020 - Springer
Faced with the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, regulatory measures aiming to prevent
interpersonal contaminations have been undertaken and among these, lockdown. Due to …

Position statement on youth resistance training: the 2014 International Consensus

RS Lloyd, AD Faigenbaum, MH Stone… - British journal of sports …, 2014 - bjsm.bmj.com
The current manuscript has been adapted from the official position statement of the UK
Strength and Conditioning Association on youth resistance training. It has subsequently …

Citius, Altius, Fortius: beneficial effects of resistance training for young athletes: narrative review

AD Faigenbaum, RS Lloyd, J MacDonald… - British journal of sports …, 2016 - bjsm.bmj.com
The motto of the Olympic Games is Citius, Altius, Fortius which is Latin for 'Faster, Higher,
Stronger'. It is a clarion call to all competitors, including the youngest, to engage in training …

Sixty minutes of what? A develo** brain perspective for activating children with an integrative exercise approach

GD Myer, AD Faigenbaum, NM Edwards… - British journal of sports …, 2015 - bjsm.bmj.com
Current recommendations for physical activity in children overlook the critical importance of
motor skill acquisition early in life. Instead, they focus on the quantitative aspects of physical …

Youth resistance training: past practices, new perspectives, and future directions

AD Faigenbaum, RS Lloyd… - Pediatric exercise …, 2013 - journals.humankinetics.com
Since the publication of the seminal review on youth resistance training by Kraemer and
colleagues in 1989, a compelling body of evidence has found that resistance training can be …

Sports in time of COVID-19: Impact of the lockdown on team activity

J Peña, A Altarriba-Bartés, J Vicens-Bordas… - Apunts Sports …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many sectors of our global society since its detection
in Wuhan in December 2019, and team sports have been no stranger to this reality. This …

Resistance training in youth: laying the foundation for injury prevention and physical literacy

C Zwolski, C Quatman-Yates, MV Paterno - Sports health, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Context: The rising incidence of physical activity–and sports-related injuries has prompted
the present-day investigation of resistance training as a potential means of injury prevention …

Developmental pathways of change in fitness and motor competence are related to overweight and obesity status at the end of primary school

LP Rodrigues, DF Stodden, VP Lopes - Journal of Science and Medicine in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives To test how different developmental pathways of health-related physical fitness
and motor competence tests relate to weight status (overweight and obesity) at the end of …