The Elite Young Athlete
(Karger, 2011)
EME 2141
Sport is by its nature competitive and even during youth it is performed at different levels with elite young athletes at the top of the performance pyramid. A coordinated series of comprehensive, research-based reviews on factors underlying the performance of children and adolescents involved in competitive sport is presented in this volume. Leading exercise and sport scientists provide the latest information on the physiology of young elite athletes, the essential role of nutrition, and the effects of endurance, high-intensity and high-resistance training and overtraining as well as on the importance of laboratory and field-based monitoring of young athletes’ performances. Further, thermoregulation and environmental factors that might affect performance are reviewed. Finally, strategies for preventing sudden cardiac death and the diagnosis and management of common sport injuries in young athletes are discussed.
The book provides up-to-date, evidence-based information for sports scientists, coaches, physiotherapists, pediatric sports medicine specialists, and other professionals involved in supporting elite young athletes.
(Description Source: Karger)
Author
Ali McManus earned her doctorate from the University of Exeter, UK and held a faculty position at the University of Hong Kong for 18 years before joining the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC in Kelowna in 2013. She is a past President of the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine and is the Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Exercise Science. She directs the CFI funded Pediatric Exercise & Inactivity Physiology Research Laboratory (PERL), which focuses on generating a greater appreciation of the cardiopulmonary and vascular impact of exercise and sedentary behaviour during childhood and how this is altered with various environmental challenges.
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Hardcover ISBN: 9783805595506
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