Physical fitness levels among European adolescents: the HELENA study

Abstract

The normative values hereby provided will enable evaluation and correct interpretation of European adolescents' fitness status.

The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status, Family Income, and Measures of Muscular and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Colombian Schoolchildren

“…†Significant at P < .001. ‡Significant at P < .01. handgrip values in the present study compared with European data 30 for children of the same age. A strength of this study is the sample size, but the underrepresentation of very low and very high (Level 6) individuals means the present data provide an accurate description of the associations between fitness and SES only across the low-to-middle class strata of Colombian society.…”

Normative reference values for the 20 m shuttle‐run test in a population‐based sample of school‐aged youth in Bogota, Colombia: the FUPRECOL study

“…The age‐ and gender‐related developmental patterns of aerobic fıtness have been well studied in non‐representative samples (Liu et al, 1992; Catley & Tomkinson, 2013; LaMonte & Blair, 2006; Ortega et al, 2011; Ortega, Ortega, Ruiz, Hurtig‐Wennlof, et al, 2008). Data from this study show the well‐documented differences between sexes and the typical changes in aerobic test performance associated with growth and maturation in youth (Malina, Beunen, Lefevre, & Woynarowska, 1997).…”

“…Sex‐ and age‐specific normative data for CRF in youth have been published (Barnett, Bacon‐Shone, Tam, Leung, & Armstrong, 1995; Eisenmann & Malina, 2002; Ortega et al, 2011; Pate, Wang, Dowda, Farrell, & O'neill, 2006; Twisk, Kemper, & van Mechelen, 2002). However, the majority of the published aerobic fitness reference values are for schoolchildren from high income countries in North America (Carrel et al, 2012; Pate et al, 2006; Tremblay et al, 2010), Asia/Oceania (Gürsel, Sonel, Gök, & Yalçin, 2004; Tomkinson, Léger, Olds, & Cazorla, 2003; Tomkinson, Olds, Kang, & Kim, 2007), and Europe (Gulías‐González, Sánchez‐López, Olivas‐Bravo, Solera‐Martínez, & Martínez‐Vizcaíno, 2014; Haugen, Høigaard, & Seiler, 2014; Roriz De Oliveira, Seabra, Freitas, Eisenmann, & Maia, 2014; Sandercock, Voss, Cohen, Taylor, & Stasinopoulos, 2012).…”

Body Composition Indices and Single and Clustered Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Adolescents: Providing Clinical-Based Cut-Points

“…Physical fitness characteristics of the study sample, as well as all the procedures used to assess physical fitness in the HELENA study, have already been published 16 . CRF was assessed with the 20m shuttle run test (stage).…”