Children are as fit as endurance athletes

(Frontiers) Researchers discover how young children seem to run around all day without getting tired: their muscles resist fatigue and recover in the same way as elite endurance athletes. The study, which compared energy output and post-exercise recovery rates of young boys, untrained adults and endurance athletes, can be used to develop athletic potential in children and improve our knowledge of how disease risk, such as diabetes, increases as our bodies change from childhood to adulthood.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news