Fitness measures and health outcomes in youth / / Committee on Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth ; Russell Pate, Maria Oria, and Laura Pillsbury, editors ; Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
"Physical fitness affects our ability to function and be active. At poor levels, it is associated with such health outcomes as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Physical fitness testing in American youth was established on a large scale in the 1950s with an early focus on performance-related...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Washington, District of Columbia : : National Academies Press,, [2012] 2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) :; illustrations (some color) |
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Table of Contents:
- Measuring Fitness in Youth
- Methodology for Selection and Interpretation of Health-Related Fitness Measures in Youth
- 4 Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Body Composition
- Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Cardiorespiratory Endurance
- Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Musculoskeletal Fitness
- Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Flexibility
- Fitness Measures for a National Youth Survey
- Fitness Measures for Schools and Other Educational Settings
- Future Needs
- Appendix A: Agenda
- Appendix B: Glossary
- Appendix C: Acronyms
- Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.