Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is widely recognized as a key marker of cardiovascular health, which makes the monitoring of temporal trends a particularly interesting and relevant topic in population health. In light of this and using the same methodological approach used in previous studies of temporal...
Tomkinson and colleagues recently published an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in response to a previous editorial by Armstrong and Welsman, who criticized the use of field-based tests, such as the 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT), as a measure of cardiorespiratory...
A study aiming to determine the 30-year secular changes in jumping performance and to assess whether these secular changes remained independent of changes in body mass was recently published in the Journal of Sport Sciences. This study quantified the 30-year secular changes in jumping performance of...
Dr. Grant Tomkinson is lead author on a paper, "European normative values for physical fitness in children and adolescents aged 9-17 years: results from 2 779 165 Eurofit performances representing 30 countries," that was recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Citation details and a summary of...