Worldwide, public health physical activity guidelines include special emphasis on
populations of children (typically 6-11 years) and adolescents (typically 12-19 years). Existing …

Introduction: Current attitudes towards secular changes in pediatric aerobic fitness are highly
polarized, both in the popular and scientific literature. Few studies have actually quantified …

Background: Popular media, health experts and researchers talk about a paediatric ‘obesity
epidemic’with exponentially increasing rates of obesity and overweight. However, some …

… It was the opinion of the Consensus Panel that it would be highly unlikely that we would
have missed any studies among 5 year-olds that that would have changed the strength of the …

… Typical research questions in this area have been: “How do people balance their work
time and leisure time?”; “How do people schedule their work?”; “Which activities do people …

There has been considerable discussion in both the scientific literature and general media
concerning the appropriateness of the body shape and proportions of the Ken and Barbie …

This paper presents a complete set of equations for a “first principles” mathematical model
of road-cycling performance, including corrections for the effect of winds, tire pressure and …

QUESTION: What is the best available research evidence (volume, quality, consistency,
generalisability) for the active cycle of breathing technique (ACBT)? DESIGN: Systematic review …

Introduction: There have been an increasing number of reports in recent years which have
highlighted that the aerobic fitness test performances of Australian and New Zealand children …

A model of cycling performance is presented. The model is based on equating two expressions
for the total amount of work performed. One expression is deduced from biomechanical …