Commentary: A. Aerobic Fitness in Youth Team Sports: Harrison CB, Gill ND, Kinugasa T, Kilding AE. Development of aerobic fitness in young team sport athletes. Sports Med. 2015; 45:969-983. PubMed doi:10.1007/s40279-015-0330-y In summary, the authors have provided practitioners working with youth athletes evidence for developing aerobic fitness throughout an athlete`s growth and maturation rather than focusing on a specific period of maturation. It provides a review for the current practices used by young team sport players to enhance aerobic performance, specifically focusing on sport-specific games (SSG) and calls for more descriptive SSG-type studies to optimize aerobic fitness development. Although there is much research to be conducted, this topic is worthy of considerably more empirical evidence being generated. B. Sprint Training and Youth Athletes: Rumpf MC, Cronin JB, Mohamad IN, Mohamad S, Oliver JL, Hughes MG. The effect of resisted sprint training on maximum sprint kinetics and kinematics in youth. Eur J Sport Sci. 2015; 15(5):374-381. PubMed doi:10.1080/17461391.2014.955125 In summary, the characteristics of this study exemplify a robust methodology, a novel intervention, and provision of empirical training data in a critical performance variable, i.e., speed.
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