Recommend Reading (CrossFit.com)

 

Highly Recommended Reading

There is a bounty of other resources (for more please ask or visit CrossFit.com). 

Lee, T. D., Swanson, L. R. & Hall, A. L. What is repeated in a repetition? Effects of practice conditions on motor skill acquisition. Phys Ther 71, 150–156 (1991).

Lieberman, D. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease. Pantheon (2013).
ISBN-13: 978-0307379412

Lloyd, R. S. et al. Position statement on youth resistance training: the 2014 International Consensus. British Journal of Sports Medicine (2013).

Medina, J. (2008) Brain Rules. Pear Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-9797777-4-5

Ratey, J. (2008) Spark. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN-13: 978-0316113502

Skerry, T. M. Mechanical loading and bone: what sort of exercise is beneficial to the skele- ton? Bone 20, 179–181 (1997).

Smith, P. F., Darlington, C. L. & Zheng, Y. Move it or lose it–is stimulation of the vestibular system necessary for normal spatial memory? Hippocampus 20, 36–43 (2010).

Tomporowski, P. D., Davis, C. L., Miller, P. H. & Naglieri, J. A. Exercise and Children’s Intelligence, Cognition, and Academic Achievement. Educational Psychology Review 20, 111–131 (2008).

Whitehead 1, M. The concept of physical literacy. European Journal of Physical Education 6, 127–138 (2001).

Additional Reading

Booth, F. W. & Lees, S. J. Fundamental questions about genes, inactivity, and chronic dis- eases. Physiol Genomics 28, 146–157 (2007).

Crespo, C. J. et al. Television watching, energy intake, and obesity in US children: results from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 155, 360–365 (2001).

Lustig, R. H. Childhood obesity: behavioral aberration or biochemical drive? Reinterpreting the First Law of Thermodynamics. Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab 2, 447–458 (2006).

Lustig, R. H. The “skinny” on childhood obesity: how our western environment starves kids” brains. Pediatr Ann 35, 898–902– 905–7 (2006).

Moss, M. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Random House (2013). ISBN-13: 978-140006980

Pedersen, B. K. and Febbraio, M. A. Muscles, exercise and obesity: skeletal muscle as a secretory organ. Nat Rev Endocrinol (2012).

Warner, M. Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal. Scribner (2013).
ISBN-13: 978-1451666731

Additional Reading

Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy (https://www.capl-ecsfp.ca/about/ – accessed 4/2015)

Latz, K. Overuse injuries in the pediatric and adolescent athlete. Mo Med 103, 81–85 (2006).

Lloyd, R. S. et al. Long-term athletic development, part 2: barriers to success and poten- tial solutions. Journal of strength and conditioning research / National Strength & Conditioning Association 29, 1451–1464 (2015).

Luke, A. et al. Sports-related injuries in youth athletes: is overscheduling a risk factor? Clin J Sport Med 21, 307–314 (2011).

Maïmoun, L. & Sultan, C. Effects of physical activity on bone remodeling. Metab. Clin. Exp. 60, 373–388 (2011).

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