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Intensive training may not be as bad for young women as previously thought.(Brief Article)
2002 MAR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Intensive training may not stunt young women's physical development as we have been led to believe. Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Professor Nicolo Maffulli of Keele University and Dr. Adam Baxter-Jones of the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, contend that this widely held view is not supported by the available evidence.
The statistics show that on average the body size of young female athletes from most sports is the same or greater than 50% of the general population, they said. Female basketball, volleyball, and tennis players, swimmers and rowers all tend to be bigger than their nonsporting peers from the age of 10 onward (Intensive training in elite young female athletes, Br J Sports Med, 2002;36:13-15).
It is only ballet dancers and gymnasts who are smaller and who tend to sexually mature later than the general population, said the authors, but their size is appropriate for their sport, and it may be that girls of this stature self-select for these sports rather than the sport itself stunting growth. This is supported by studies showing that the parents of gymnasts tend to be shorter than average. A restricted diet is also likely to have an effect, ...
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