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FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00979
Keywords
aerobic fitness; assessment; clinical red flags; fat free mass; multilevel allometric modeling; peak oxygen uptake; scaling; youth
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- Darlington Foundation Trust
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Peak oxygen uptake ((V) over dot O-2) is internationally recognized as the criterion measure of youth aerobic fitness, but flawed laboratory assessments and fallacious interpretations of peak (V) over dot O-2 in ratio with body mass have confused our understanding of the development of aerobic fitness. Moreover, the recent emergence of specious predictions of peak (V) over dot O-2 from performance tests and the promotion of spurious clinical red flags and cardiometabolic cut(-)points have confused our understanding of the relationship between youth aerobic fitness and health. Recent longitudinal studies of 10-18-year-olds using multilevel allometric modeling have empirically demonstrated that peak (V) over dot O-2 increases in accord with sex-specific, concurrent changes in age-and maturity status-driven morphological covariates with the timing and tempo of changes specific to individuals. During both cycle ergometry and treadmill running age-and maturity status-driven changes in fat free mass have been revealed as the most powerful morphological influences on the development of youth aerobic fitness. To bring some clarity to current confusion, this paper argues that future studies must be founded on rigorous assessment and interpretation of peak (V) over dot O-2 and ensure that they address the development of youth aerobic fitness and its relationship with present and future health in relation to appropriate sex-specific morphological covariates governed by individual biological clocks.
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