Cardiovascular exercise guidelines for children and adolescent women

Abstract

Exercise participation implemented during childhood and adolescence may promote a continued active lifestyle later in life. This may then prevent the apparition of cardiovascular, metabolic, and other diseases known to be prevalent in young and older adults. Children and adolescents have unique exercise capacity characteristics. Thus, appropriate cardiovascular exercise guidelines were developed in order to receive maximum benefits from exercise training while also emphasizing safety. Furthermore, approaches to training with the youth were developed to promote exercise and sport adherence. This chapter focuses on cardiovascular exercise guidelines for children and adolescent women.