A Youth Compendium of Physical Activities: Activity Codes and Metabolic Intensities.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

A Youth Compendium of Physical Activities (Youth Compendium) was developed to estimate the energy costs of physical activities using data on youth only.

Methods

On the basis of a literature search and pooled data of energy expenditure measurements in youth, the energy costs of 196 activities were compiled in 16 activity categories to form a Youth Compendium of Physical Activities. To estimate the intensity of each activity, measured oxygen consumption (V˙O2) was divided by basal metabolic rate (Schofield age-, sex-, and mass-specific equations) to produce a youth MET (METy). A mixed linear model was developed for each activity category to impute missing values for age ranges with no observations for a specific activity.

Results

This Youth Compendium consists o

SUBMITTER: Butte NF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5768467 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature