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Genetics of fitness and physical performance
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This essential compendium reviews the past 25 years of accumulated evidence on the genetic basis of health- and performance-related fitness phenotypes and offers readers new opportunities to better understand atherosclerosis, noninsulin dependent diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.Abstract:
"Genetics of Fitness and Physical Performance" is the first comprehensive reference on the role of the genes in influencing individual variation in fitness and performance. This essential compendium reviews the past 25 years of accumulated evidence on the genetic basis of health- and performance-related fitness phenotypes. Focusing on the interests of sport scientists, the authors provide insight into the significance of this research on nearly every aspect of the study of human physical activity. The book presents the biological basis of heredity and explains the concepts and methods of genetic epidemiology and molecular biology that are necessary to understand this specialized field. With the rapid advances in molecular biology and the paradigms of human genetics, exercise scientists face a dynamic and vibrant new field. This book offers readers new opportunities to better understand atherosclerosis, noninsulin dependent diabetes, obesity, and hypertension by searching for single gene effects and identifying susceptibility genes.The authors review the evidence on the role of the genes for human traits as it pertains to the exercise science field. And they explore the scientific, practical, and ethical issues that confront exercise scientists as progress is made in this field."Genetics of Fitness and Physical Performance" is vital reading for scholars in the field of exercise and sport science to understand how recent discoveries in genetics might shape their future research.read more
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Anthropometric and physiological predispositions for elite soccer
TL;DR: It is concluded that anthropometric and physiological criteria do have a role as part of a holistic monitoring of talented young players, and fitness profiling can generate a useful database against which talented groups may be compared.
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Talent identification and development in soccer
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TL;DR: It is concluded that the sport and exercise sciences have an important support role in the processes of identifying, monitoring and nurturing talented soccer players towards realizing their potential.
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Transforming gifts into talents: the DMGT as a developmental theory1
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Toward a comprehensive model of physical activity
John C. Spence,Rebecca E. Lee +1 more
TL;DR: This model portrays physical activity behavior as being influenced by interplay between environmental settings and biological and psychological factors, and further testing of this and existing ecological models of physical activity is recommended.
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Physical activity and fitness: pathways from childhood to adulthood.
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