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ea0030s12 | Symposium 3 The Olympiad! | BSPED2012

Physical Activity and Athletic Training in Children and Adolescents

Rogol Alan

Physical activity is any body movement produced by the skeletal muscle and that results in a substantial increase over the resting energy expenditure (REE). Training is physical activity and systematic, specialized practice for a specific sport discipline. This activity may have an effect on growth and biological maturation of young athletes. For males the more successful age group athletes are on-time or advanced in biological maturation, but the opposite is true (on-time or ...