![]() In recent years, the level of functional endurance capacity has declined dramatically in school-aged children, increasing the prevalence of overweight/obesity and not meeting the recommended levels of physical activity. Although all aspects of physical fitness seem to be important, functional endurance capacity has been the strongest predictor of morbidity and mortality in both men and women independently of other risk factors. Physical fitness represents a multifactorial construct and an integrated measure of body composition, functional endurance capacity, muscular fitness, speed/agility and flexibility. Moreover, studies have recognized that most risk factors attributed to chronic diseases in adulthood begin during childhood, pointing out that interventions aiming to enhance physical fitness at younger age for future health benefits are warranted. Evidence suggests that higher levels of physical fitness in youth may prevent from cardiovascular, metabolic and mental diseases later in life, highlighting the importance of tracking characteristics of physical fitness from childhood to adulthood. It is often defined as ‘an integrated measure of most, if not all, the body functions (skeletomuscular, cardiorespiratory, hematocirculatory, psychoneurological and endocrine–metabolic) involved in the performance of daily physical activity and/or physical exercise’. Physical fitness has become an important non-communicable factor associated with well-being and health in the past two decades. ConclusionsĪlthough significant, functional endurance capacity is weakly to moderately associated with other physical fitness components, pointing out that such measure should be tested separately from other aspects of physical fitness in school-aged children. No significant associations between functional endurance capacity and body-mass index in boys were observed. ![]() The associations were performed using generalized estimating equations with beta ( β) coefficients. Health-related physical fitness components included: 1) body-mass index (kg/m 2) calculated from height and weight (measure of body size), 2) sit-and-reach test (measure of flexibility), 3) standing broad jump (measure of explosive strength of lower extremities), 4) sit-ups in 30 s (measure of repetitive strength of the trunk), 5) 10 × 5 shuttle run test (measure of agility) and 6) 20-m shuttle run test (measure of functional endurance capacity). In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 1612 children [mean age ± standard deviation (SD) = 9.72 ± 2.37 years 52.5% girls). Therefore, the main purpose of the study was to test the associations between functional endurance capacity with other physical fitness components in 7–14-year-old children, stratified by gender. Since various physical fitness aspects do not change the same as functional endurance capacity during childhood, it is necessary to establish possible associations between functional endurance capacity and other physical fitness components in children. ![]() Although evidence suggests that functional endurance capacity is the most important component associated with future health, little is known of how it is associated with multiple other physical fitness components.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |