Children's Exercise Physiology

Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The Importance of Body Size -Size and Function: Lessons From Allometry -Adjusting Physiologic Variables for Body Size Chapter 2. Growth and Exercise -Influence of Growth Factors on Physical Fitness -Effects of Exercise on Growth Chapter 3. The Impact of Puberty -The Process of Puberty -Physiologic and Anatomic Expression of Sexual Maturation -Pubertal Effects on Physical Fitness -Influence of Exercise on Sexual Maturation Chapter 4. The Metabolic Machinery -Basic Concepts in Exercise Physiology -Resting ATP Stores -Glycolysis -Aerobic Metabolism -Training Effects -Are Children Metabolic Nonspecialists? Chapter 5. Aerobic Fitness -The Development of VO2max -Ontogenetic Scaling Exponents for VO2max -Is VO2max (or Peak VO2) Really VO2max? Physiology and Semantics -The Meaning of Physiologic Aerobic Fitness -Does VO2max Reflect the Development of Endurance Fitness? -Oxygen Uptake Kinetics -The Relationship Between Aerobic Fitness and Physical Activity -Sex Differences in VO2max Chapter 6. Cardiovascular Responses to Exercise -Relating Cardiac Variables to Body Size -Circulatory Responses to Exercise: The Basics -Cardiovascular Responses to Acute Progressive Exercise -Myocardial Energetics -Heritability of Cardiac Size -Isometric (Static) Exercise Chapter 7. Ventilation Responses -Developmental Changes in Ventilatory Components -Ventilatory Mechanics -Control of Ventilation -Maintaining Normoxemia -Prolonged Steady-State Exercise Chapter 8. Energy Demands of Weight-Bearing Locomotion -The Meaning of Economy: Is Allometry Appropriate? -Stride Frequency -The Cost of Generating Force Hypothesis -Stride Efficiency and Elastic Recoil -Muscular Efficiency -Muscle Co-contraction -Sex Differences in Economy -Uphill and Downhill Running -Implications for Aerobic Fitness Chapter 9. Short-Burst Activities and Anaerobic Fitness -Metabolic Anaerobic Fitness -Laboratory Anaerobic Fitness: Wingate Cycle Testing -Short-Burst Fitness in the Field: Sprinting -Ventilatory Anaerobic Threshold -Explosive Power: Vertical Jump Chapter 10. Muscle Strength -Dimensionality Theory and Allometric Scaling -Development of Muscle Strength -Determinants of Muscle Strength Development -Explaining Qualitative Changes -Muscle Damage Chapter 11. Responses to Physical Training -Resistance Training -Trainability of Fitness in Short-Burst Activities -Aerobic Trainability Chapter 12. Thermoregulation -Maturational Changes -Heat and Exercise Intolerance -Fluid Balance Chapter 13. The Central Nervous System and Physiologic Fitness -The CNS "Governor" -Perception of Exercise Stress -Autonomic Neurological Influences -CNS Control of Physical Activity Glossary References Index About the Author

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