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Int J Sports Med 1981; 02(2): 97-100
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1034590
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Maximal Aerobic Power in 13- and 14-Year-Old Teenagers in Relation to Biologic Age*

H. C. G. Kemper, R. Verschuur
  • University of Amsterdam, Jan Swammerdam Instituut, Lab. of Psychophysiology (Prof.dr. P. Visser), Lab. of Health Sciences (Prof.dr. R.L. Zielhuis), Amsterdam - The Netherlands
* This research was supported by a grant from the Praeventiefonds and the Stichting voor Onderzoek van het Onderwijs (S.V.O.) in The Hague, The Netherlands (project number 0255).
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14 March 2008 (online)

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Errata of: Maximal Aerobic Power in 13- and 14-Year-Old Teenagers in Relation to Biological AgeInt J Sports Med 1981; 02(04): 261-262
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1034621

Abstract

Maximal oxygen uptake (V̇O2max) was measured on a treadmill in 375 teenagers, 13 and 14 years old.

V̇O2max per kg body mass in boys had a mean value of 59 ml.min-1.kg-1 and in girls of 51 ml.min-1.kg-1.

Linear regression analysis across biologic age revealed that in boys as well as in girls the V̇O2max increased with increasing biologic age. However, per kg body weight or per kg lean body mass V̇O2max decreased. V̇O2max per cm height squared and per kg body mass to the two-thirds power did not show a change with biologic age.

Multiple regression analysis revealed that the increase in the absolute values of the V̇O2max and the decrease in the relative values of the V̇O2max with increasing biologic age was almost completely due to the increase in total body mass (i.e. height and weight).

Key words

V̇O2max - height - mass - lean body mass - treadmill running - skeletal age - adolescents

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