The Temporal Association between Body Characteristics and Speed Performance over Twenty-Five Years in Italian Adolescents

• Main Authors: Matteo Vandoni (Author), Vittoria Carnevale Pellino (Author), Annalisa De Silvestri (Author), Nicola Lovecchio (Author), Antonio Rovida (Author), Alessandro Gatti (Author), Valentina Biagioli (Author), Gianvincenzo Zuccotti (Author), Valeria Calcaterra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Physical fitness (PF) is positively related to skeletal and metabolic health, and it had an inverse relation with obesity. Adolescents with obesity have the worst performance in PF and speed-agility (SA) that contributes to an augmented risk to develop pathologies. To the best of our kno...