Children differ from adults in many muscular performance attributes such as size-normalized
strength and power, endurance, fatigability and the recovery from exhaustive exercise, to …

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the growth, maturation and resistance
training-related changes in muscle-tendon and neuromuscular mechanisms in youth, and …

Background It has been reported that boys' and girls' physical activity (PA) levels decline
throughout adolescence. Boys are at risk of physical inactivity during adolescence; however …

Antagonist coactivation is the simultaneous activation of agonist and antagonist muscles
during a motor task. Age-related changes in coactivation may contribute to observed …

This study investigated measures of physical fitness and golf swing performance in
competitive youth golfers. Sixty-four golfers, subdivided into three handicap groups (CAT0,< …

Methods Literature examining VA differences, using twitch interpolation in children (7–14 yr)
and adults (16–28 yr), was systematically reviewed. Of the 1915 studies initially identified …

Development of the Youth Athlete offers a single-authored, well-illustrated, evidence-based,
and integrated analysis of the development and trainability of the morphological and …

Using global surface electromyography (sEMG) and the sEMG threshold it has been
suggested that children activate their type-II motor unit (MU) to a lesser extent compared with …

Children have lower size-normalised maximal voluntary force, speed, and power than
adults. It has been hypothesised that these and other age-related performance differences …

Exercise Physiology for Health and Sports Performance brings together all the essential
human anatomy and applied physiology that students of exercise science, physical …