Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

Abstract

The second edition of Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity has been expanded with almost 300 new pages of material, making it the most comprehensive text on the biological growth, maturation, physical performance, and physical activity of children and adolescents. The new edition retains all the best features of the original text, including the helpful outlines at the beginning of each chapter that allow students to review major concepts. This edition features updates on basic content, expanded and modified chapters, and the latest research findings to meet the needs of upper undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and professionals working with children and young adults. The second edition also includes these new features: - 10 lab activities that encourage students to investigate subject matter outside of class and save teachers time - A complete reference list at the end of each chapter - Chapter-ending summaries to make the review process easy for students - New chapters that contain updates on thermoregulation, methods for the assessment of physical activity, undernutrition, obesity, children with clinical conditions, and trends in growth and performance - Discussions that span current problems in public health, such as the quantification of physical activity and energy expenditure, persistent undernutrition in developing countries, and the obesity epidemic in developed countries The authors are three of the world's foremost authorities on children's growth and development. In 29 chapters, they address introductory concepts and prenatal growth, postnatal growth, functional development, biological maturation, influencing factors in growth, maturation and development, and specific applications to public health and sport. In addition, secular trends in growth, maturation, and performance over the past 150 years are considered. You'll be able to recognize risk factors that may affect young athletes; you'll also be able to make informed decisions about appropriate physical activities, program delivery, and performance expectations. Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity, Second Edition, covers many additional topics, including new techniques for the assessment of body composition, the latest advances in the study of skeletal muscle, the human genome, the hormonal regulation of growth and maturation, clarification of dietary reference intakes, and the study of risk factors for several adult diseases. This is the only text to focus on the biological growth and maturation process of children and adolescents as it relates to physical activity and performance. With over 300 new pages of material, this text expertly builds on the successful first edition.

Weight status is associated with cross‐sectional trajectories of motor co‐ordination across childhood

“…The relatively smaller sample size of 11-year-old boys and girls, as compared with the other ages, also may have influenced this dramatic increase in odds ratios. Overall, these results agree with previous cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that demonstrate associations between MC and body weight status increase with age (D'Hondt et al 2011(D'Hondt et al , 2013Lopes et al 2012b) Growth studies have shown that, in general, there is consistent improvement in children's motor skill development and performance (Kelso & Clark 1982;Malina et al 2004) across time. These data describe development with respect to normative growth curves and may be interpreted as universal change (2010) indicated that when longitudinal trajectories of MC, PA, cardiorespiratory endurance and weight status were examined across a span of 5 years, the only significant predictor of weight status change was MC.…”

“…Unfortunately, no maturation data were collected for this large sample. During puberty, rapid changes in somatic growth with inter individual differences in timing and tempo generally result in changes in muscle mass (boys) and adipose tissue (girls) (Malina et al 2004). These inter-individual differences in somatic growth could alter relationships between MC and BMI.…”

Relationship between quantitative indicators of motor actions and technical and tactical indicators in young football players 13-14 years of different playing roles

“…The popularity of football is well known, since millions of children and adults are involved in this sport. In Ukraine, despite a significant enthusiasm for football, experts pay attention to the significant gap between the players of leading Ukrainian clubs and the best Ukrainian world and European teams in individual technical, tactical and physical training [1,2,3,4].…”

“…Many authors have studied issues related to the construction of the training process of football players of different groups: young football players [4,5,6,7]; highly qualified football players [8, 9, 10. 11]; old-timers football players [12,13].…”

“…The studies presented in the available literature, the technical and tactical actions and motor qualities that are inherent for players of all ages [14,2,4,15] and the playing role [1, 8, 6, 13, 10. 16].…”