BACKGROUND: The relationship between parental physical activity and children's physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness has not been well studied in the Australian context. Given the increasing focus on physical activity and childhood obesity, it is important to understand correlates of children's physical activity. This study aimed to investigate whether parental exercise was associated...

The study of physical performance capacity has been of particular interest to the exercise physiologist and many accurate techniques have been designed for the measurement of human performance. The use of maximal oxygen uptake has, since its development by Hill et al in 1924, been regarded as a valuable measure of cardiorespiratory function and used extensively as a criterion of performance cap...

Twenty-five national kabaddi players (Asiad gold medalists 1990), mean age 27.91 years, who attended a national camp at the Sports Authority of India, Bangalore before the Beijing Asian Games in 1990, were investigated for their physical characteristics, body fat, lean body mass (LBM) and somatotype. The physiological characteristics assessed included back strength, maximum oxygen uptake capaci...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the long-acting beta-agonist salmeterol affects athletic performance in patients with asthma. The effect of 50 micrograms salmeterol on the cardiorespiratory responses to a progressive maximal cycle exercise test and on endurance capacity (defined as the exercise duration at 70% maximum oxygen uptake), was compared with 200 micrograms salbutamol ...

Increased gastrointestinal blood flow is essential for euryhaline fishes to maintain osmotic homeostasis during the initial phase of a transition from freshwater to seawater. However, the cardiorespiratory responses and hemodynamic changes required for a successful long-term transition to seawater remain largely unknown. In the present study, we simultaneously measured oxygen consumption rate (...

BACKGROUND Paediatric patients on maintenance haemodialysis (HD) often report their own physical fitness to be hampered. Their physical endurance capacity is known to be significantly lower than that of healthy controls. However, physical endurance was up to now only examined on non-HD days. We were interested in the effect of HD on the cardiorespiratory capacity of children and adolescents on ...