Strength Training for Children and Adolescents
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- Vol. 9 (1), 29-36
- https://doi.org/10.5435/00124635-200101000-00004
Abstract
Strength, or resistance, training for young athletes has become one of the most popular and rapidly evolving modes of enhancing athletic performance. Early studies questioned both the safety and the effectiveness of strength training for young athletes, but current evidence indicates that boKeywords
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