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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Importance of Body Size | |
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| Size and Function: Lessons From Allometry | |
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| Adjusting Physiologic Variables for Body Size | |
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| Growth and Exercise | |
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| Influence of Growth Factors on Physical Fitness | |
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| Effects of Exercise on Growth | |
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| The Impact of Puberty | |
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| The Process of Puberty | |
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| Physiologic and Anatomic Expression of Sexual Maturation | |
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| Pubertal Effects on Physical Fitness | |
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| Influence of Exercise on Sexual Maturation | |
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| The Metabolic Machinery | |
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| Basic Concepts in Exercise Physiology | |
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| Resting ATP Stores | |
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| Glycolysis | |
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| Aerobic Metabolism | |
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| Training Effects | |
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| Are Children Metabolic Nonspecialists? | |
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| Aerobic Fitness | |
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| The Development of VO2max | |
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| Ontogenetic Scaling Exponents for VO2max | |
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| Is VO2max (or Peak VO2) Really VO2max? Physiology and Semantics | |
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| The Meaning of Physiologic Aerobic Fitness | |
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| Does VO2max Reflect the Development of Endurance Fitness? | |
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| Oxygen Uptake Kinetics | |
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| The Relationship Between Aerobic Fitness and Physical Activity | |
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| Sex Differences in VO2max | |
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| Cardiovascular Responses to Exercise | |
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| Relating Cardiac Variables to Body Size | |
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| Circulatory Responses to Exercise: The Basics | |
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| Cardiovascular Responses to Acute Progressive Exercise | |
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| Myocardial Energetics | |
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| Heritability of Cardiac Size | |
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| Isometric (Static) Exercise | |
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| Ventilation Responses | |
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| Developmental Changes in Ventilatory Components | |
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| Ventilatory Mechanics | |
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| Control of Ventilation | |
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| Maintaining Normoxemia | |
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| Prolonged Steady-State Exercise | |
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| Energy Demands of Weight-Bearing Locomotion | |
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| The Meaning of Economy: Is Allometry Appropriate? | |
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| Stride Frequency | |
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| The Cost of Generating Force Hypothesis | |
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| Stride Efficiency and Elastic Recoil | |
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| Muscular Efficiency | |
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| Muscle Co-contraction | |
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| Sex Differences in Economy | |
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| Uphill and Downhill Running | |
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| Implications for Aerobic Fitness | |
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| Short-Burst Activities and Anaerobic Fitness | |
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| Metabolic Anaerobic Fitness | |
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| Laboratory Anaerobic Fitness: Wingate Cycle Testing | |
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| Short-Burst Fitness in the Field: Sprinting | |
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| Ventilatory Anaerobic Threshold | |
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| Explosive Power: Vertical Jump | |
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| Muscle Strength | |
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| Dimensionality Theory and Allometric Scaling | |
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| Development of Muscle Strength | |
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| Determinants of Muscle Strength Development | |
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| Explaining Qualitative Changes | |
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| Muscle Damage | |
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| Responses to Physical Training | |
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| Resistance Training | |
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| Trainability of Fitness in Short-Burst Activities | |
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| Aerobic Trainability | |
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| Thermoregulation | |
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| Maturational Changes | |
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| Heat and Exercise Intolerance | |
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| Fluid Balance | |
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| The Central Nervous System and Physiologic Fitness | |
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| The CNS "Governor" | |
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| Perception of Exercise Stress | |
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| Autonomic Neurological Influences | |
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| CNS Control of Physical Activity | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |