Development of the youth athlete / Neil Armstrong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Growth, maturation, and youth sport -- Exercise metabolism and youth sport -- Hormones, energy, nutrition, and youth sport -- Growth, maturation, and youth athletes -- Youth sport-related motor performance -- Muscle strength -- High-intensity exercise -- Maximal and peak oxygen uptake -- Submaximal indicators of aerobic fitness and sport performance -- Pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics.

"In Development of the Young Athlete, Professor Neil Armstrong offers a unique, single-authored, evidence-based and integrated analysis of the physical and physiological development of young athletes. Drawing on specific sporting examples, the book critically analyses youth development in the context of long-term health and wellbeing, tackling the principle controversies in youth sport such as overtraining and specialisation (including some of the dominant talent development models), the ethics of physiological testing, the use of performance-enhancing substances, and future issues like selective breeding and gene-doping"--