Abstract
AbstractIn brief: In the 1950s President Dwight D. Eisenhower focused the nation's attention on the apparently low physical fitness of its youth. A fitness test developed during that time evaluated motor fitness components such as speed, power, agility, cardiorespiratory endurance, and muscle strength/endurance. In the mid-1970s a trend toward health-related physical fitness began, and in 1980 a new test was developed that measured cardiovascular endurance, body composition, flexibility, and muscular strength and endurance. The author concludes that motor fitness is important for athletes, and health-related physical fitness is for everyone.
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Physical fitnessTest (biology)Fitness testPsychologyGerontologyApplied psychologyPhysical therapyMedicineBiology
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- 1983
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- 11
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 77-83
- Citations
- 140
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Russell R. Pate
(1983).
A New Definition of Youth Fitness.
The Physician and Sportsmedicine
, 11
(4)
, 77-83.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00913847.1983.11708509
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- 10.1080/00913847.1983.11708509