Why Do Children Have Faster VO₂ Kinetics?—A Response to Dotan (2019)

Youth Aerobic Fitness

“…She takes the opportunity to expand her analysis of the sparse research, critically examines the evidence supporting the existence of child-adult differences, questions aspects of the differential muscle-activation hypothesis, and identifies areas for further research. Taken together, the thought-provoking contributions of Dotan (22) and McNarry (34,35) remind us that much remains to be learned about the mechanisms underpinning the development of pulmonaryVO 2 dynamics in childhood and adolescence.…”