New horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children: Breaking the paradigm
Traditional methods to normalize aerobic fitness (VO2max) have been considered inadequate for not properly adjusting the effects of body size in children, adolescents and adults. Allometric scaling (Y=aXb) has emerged as an efficient method to compare individuals of different body dimensions. Studie...
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| author | Giovani dos Santos Cunha Gabriela Tomedi Leites Brian Weldon Timmons |
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| description | Traditional methods to normalize aerobic fitness (VO2max) have been considered inadequate for not properly adjusting the effects of body size in children, adolescents and adults. Allometric scaling (Y=aXb) has emerged as an efficient method to compare individuals of different body dimensions. Studies aimed to compare VO2max in individuals with different body sizes should use methodology that properly accounts for the body size effect, thereby avoiding misinterpretation and reaching the potentially wrong conclusion. The use of allometric scaling for studies aimed to compare aerobic fitness in children and adolescents who dramatically vary in body size is strongly recommended. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0c1630fda4464708918560a946e909522022-12-21T17:58:16ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaRevista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano1415-84261980-00372014-10-0116670971310.5007/1980-0037.2014v16n6p70922630New horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children: Breaking the paradigmGiovani dos Santos Cunha0Gabriela Tomedi Leites1Brian Weldon Timmons2McMaster University. Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology Farroupilha.McMaster University.McMaster UniversityTraditional methods to normalize aerobic fitness (VO2max) have been considered inadequate for not properly adjusting the effects of body size in children, adolescents and adults. Allometric scaling (Y=aXb) has emerged as an efficient method to compare individuals of different body dimensions. Studies aimed to compare VO2max in individuals with different body sizes should use methodology that properly accounts for the body size effect, thereby avoiding misinterpretation and reaching the potentially wrong conclusion. The use of allometric scaling for studies aimed to compare aerobic fitness in children and adolescents who dramatically vary in body size is strongly recommended.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/rbcdh/article/view/32619allometrybody compositionoxygen uptake |
| spellingShingle | Giovani dos Santos Cunha Gabriela Tomedi Leites Brian Weldon Timmons New horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children: Breaking the paradigm Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano allometry body composition oxygen uptake |
| title | New horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children: Breaking the paradigm |
| title_full | New horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children: Breaking the paradigm |
| title_fullStr | New horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children: Breaking the paradigm |
| title_full_unstemmed | New horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children: Breaking the paradigm |
| title_short | New horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children: Breaking the paradigm |
| title_sort | new horizons for aerobic fitness normalization in children breaking the paradigm |
| topic | allometry body composition oxygen uptake |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/rbcdh/article/view/32619 |
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