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Endurance in young athletes: it can be trained

A D G Baxter-Jones¹, N Maffulli²

¹ College of Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
² Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Keele University School of Medicine, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire UK

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Professor Maffulli, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery, Keele University School of Medicine, North Staffordshire Hospital, Thornburrow Drive, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire ST4 7QB, UK;
osa14@keele.ac.uk

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Endurance exercise training enhances exercise tolerance and ultimately improves the performance of young athletes

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Abbreviations: VO₂MAX, maximal oxygen uptake; AT, anaerobic threshold

Keywords: children; endurance; oxygen uptake; training

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A large number of young athletes train for competitive sport before puberty, yet the understanding of their capabilities to benefit from endurance training is limited.^1,2 Many studies of endurance trainability of children have methodological flaws. Most investigations that have involved adequate intensity, type, and duration of training have shown in children the qualitative changes expected from adults, although children may need a greater exercise intensity than adults to trigger cardiovascular adaptations to training.³

Maximal oxygen uptake (VO₂MAX) is the key cardiorespiratory determinant of endurance exercise. Not all children and adolescents fulfil the adult criteria of obtaining VO₂MAX by reaching a plateau in oxygen consumption (VO₂). Peak VO₂, the highest level of VO₂ elicited during an exercise test to exhaustion, is considered a more appropriate index for determining the endurance exercise potential in children.^1,2

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