ABSTRACT
The assessment and interpretation of the physiological and metabolic responses to exercise of healthy, untrained young people in relation to age, sex, and maturity have been a major focus of the research programme of the Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre’s in the 10 y since its inception in 1987. A major consideration in these endeavours has been the problem of how to partition out, or scale, exercise performance for differences in body size. This paper describes, in broadly chronological order, how our interest in scaling issues was initiated and has progressed, and summarises the results of our studies which have applied various scaling techniques to the interpretation of young people’s exercise performance.
