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Is Muscular Fitness Associated with Future Health Benefits in Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

García-Hermoso, Antonio, Ramírez-Campillo, Rodrigo, Izquierdo, Mikel·2019·Sports Medicine

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Background No previous systematic review has quantitatively examined the association between muscular fitness during childhood and adolescence and health parameters later in life.Objective The aim was to systematically review and meta-analyze the current evidence for a prospective association between muscular fitness in childhood and adolescence and future health status.Methods Two authors systematically searched MEDLINE, EMBASE and SPORTDiscus electronic databases and conducted manual searching of reference lists of selected articles. Relevant articles were identified by the following criteria: apparently healthy children and adolescents aged 3-18 years with muscular fitness assessed at baseline (e.g., handgrip, standing long jump, sit-ups, among others), and a follow-up period of ≥ 1 year. The outcome measures were anthropometric and adiposity measurements and cardiometabolic, bone and musculoskeletal health parameters. Two authors independently extracted data.Results Thirty studies were included in the meta-analysis, yielding a total of 21,686 participants. The meta-analysis found a significant, moderate-large (p < 0.05) effect size between muscular fitness at baseline and body mass index (r = - 0.14; 95% confidence interval (CI) - 0.21 to - 0.07), skinfold thickness (r = - 0.32; 95% CI - 0.40 to - 0.23), homeostasis model assessment estimated insulin resistance (r = - 0.10; 95% CI - 0.16 to - 0.05), triglycerides (r = - 0.22; 95% CI - 0.30 to - 0.13), cardiovascular disease risk score (r = - 0.29; 95% CI - 0.39 to - 0.18), and bone mineral density (r = 0.166; 95% CI 0.086 to 0.243) at follow-up.Conclusion A prospective negative association was observed between muscular fitness in childhood/adolescence and adiposity and cardiometabolic parameters in later life, together with a positive association for bone health. There is inconclusive evidence for low back pain benefits.

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“Despite the growingbodyof evidence (García-Hermoso et al., 2019) supporting the health benefits ofMFactivity (e.g. improvements inmetabolic function, bone health, andmental health) (García-Hermoso et al., 2019; Smith et al., 2014), much of the focus is towards aerobic-based PA such as walking and…”
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Plyometric Jump Training Effects on Maximal Strength in Soccer Players: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis of Randomized-Controlled Studies
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“Muscular strength is also inversely related to CVD risk and mortality, insulin resistance, bone health, and adiposity [20].”
BackgroundInfluential
Association between the Sociodemographic Characteristics of Parents with Health-Related and Lifestyle Markers of Children in Three Different Spanish-Speaking Countries: An Inter-Continental Study at OECD Country Level
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Background
Muscle strength deficits are associated with low bone mineral density in young pediatric cancer survivors: The iBoneFIT project
Mármol-Pérez, A., Gil-Cosano, J. J., Ubago‐Guisado, E., Llorente‐Cantarero, F. J., Pascual-Gázquez, J. F., Ness, K. K., Martínez‐Vizcaíno, V., Ruiz, J. R., & Gracia‐Marco, L. (2024) · Journal of sport and health science/Journal of Sport and Health Science · doi:10.1016/j.jshs.2024.01.003 · Cited by 12
How Should Youth Handgrip Strength be Normalized? New Insights Using 3-D Allometry with “Generalizable” Norm-Referenced Values, Data from NHANES
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Growing up strong: The importance of physical, mental, and emotional strength during childhood and adolescence with focus on dietary factors
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A 47-Year Comparison of Lower Body Muscular Power in Spanish Boys: A Short Report
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“, muscular strength, muscular power and local muscular endurance) in children and adolescents are associated with poor motor competence, functional limitations and adverse health outcomes [1,2].”
Background
Independent and combined influence of physical fitness components on self-esteem in adolescents: DADOS study
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Pengaruh Kebugaran Jasmani, Status Gizi, dan Motivasi Belajar terhadap Hasil Belajar PJOK
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A scalable school‐based intervention to increase early adolescents' motor competence and health‐related fitness
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The association between muscular power from childhood to adulthood and adult measures of glucose homeostasis
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Fitness, body composition, and metabolic risk scores in children and adolescents: the UP&DOWN study
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“On the other hand, increased MF through resistance training promotes increased insulin sensitivity, which also affects the risk of MetS [19], a possible mechanism through which high MF may influence insulin resistance is by stimulating proteins in the insulin-signalling cascade [66].”
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Physical activity practiced at a young age is associated with a less severe subsequent clinical presentation in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
Bettio, C., Banchelli, F., Salsi, V., Vicini, R., Crisafulli, O., Ruggiero, L., Ricci, G., Bucci, E., Angelini, C. I., Berardinelli, A. L., et al. (2024) · BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders · doi:10.1186/s12891-023-07150-x · Cited by 11
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“The development of cardiovascular, obesity, mental health, and bone health is closely correlated with muscle strength, which is a physical fitness factor that rises steadily with age [61–63].”
Background
Lifestyle associated with physical fitness related to health and cardiometabolic risk factors in Chilean schoolchildren
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Health- and skill-related physical fitness profile of Brazilian children and adolescents: a systematic review
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“Considering the particularities of reduced sample sizes in the field (2), a meta-analysis for a given outcome was conducted if at least 3 studies provided sufficient data for the calculation of ES (38,61,83).”
Background
Associations Between Fundamental Movement Skills, Muscular Fitness, Self-Perception and Physical Activity in Primary School Students
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Effect of Plyometric Exercises of Lower Limb on Strength, Postural Control, and Risk of Falling in Stroke Patients
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“…in post-treatment mean scores of anteroposterior stability, mediolateral stability, and overall stability, these findings align with those of [10,20], However, our study makes a novel contribution by extending these benefits to a stroke population, where balance impairments are a leading cause…”
Added predictive value of childhood physical fitness to traditional risk factors for adult cardiovascular disease
Fraser, B. J., Blizzard, C. L., Tomkinson, G. R., Dwyer, T., Venn, A., & Magnussen, C. G. (2025) · European Journal of Preventive Cardiology · doi:10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf102 · Cited by 10
Improvements in Physical Fitness are Associated with Favorable Changes in Blood Lipid Concentrations in Children
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Cross-sectional association between physical fitness and cardiometabolic risk in Chilean schoolchildren: the fat but fit paradox
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“The independent biological influence of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and muscular fitness (MF) on CMR has been verified in children and adolescents (18,19).”
Handgrip Strength and Current Smoking Are Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk in Korean Adolescents: A Population-Based Study
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Decreased Muscle-to-Fat Mass Ratio Is Associated with Low Muscular Fitness and High Alanine Aminotransferase in Children and Adolescent Boys in Organized Sports Clubs
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“In addition, explosive strength is significantly associated with current and future health (e.g., cardiometabolic disease risk, adiposity, bone mass; García-Hermoso et al., 2019), which suggests that athletes with lower 2D:4Ds are healthier.”
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Overweight/Obese Schoolchildren with Low Muscle Strength Have a Lower Cardiorespiratory Capacity and Greater Cardiovascular Risk: Results of the School Health Survey of the Extreme South of Chile 2019
Albornoz-Guerrero, J., Zapata‐Lamana, R., Reyes‐Molina, D., Cigarroa, I., García-Pérez-de-Sevilla, G., & García-Merino, S. (2021) · Children · doi:10.3390/children8090734 · Cited by 10
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Individual and combined impact of physical fitness on health‐related quality of life during adolescence: DADOS Study
Solera-Sanchez, A., Adelantado‐Renau, M., Moliner‐Urdiales, D., & Beltran‐Valls, M. R. (2021) · European Journal of Sport Science · doi:10.1080/17461391.2021.2012596 · Cited by 10
Trends in means and distributional characteristics of cardiorespiratory endurance performance for Italian children ( 1984–2010)
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“Our fi ndings may be important to public health and sport because CRE is signi fi cantly associated with current and future health as well as sporting success (Armstrong et al., 2011; García-Hermoso et al., 2019; Högström et al., 2016; Raghuveer et al., 2020; Smith et al., 2014).”
Background
Temporal trends in the physical fitness of Hong Kong children aged 6–12 years between 2003–04 and 2015–16
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“…potential implications for public health given the significant associations between children’s physical fitness and health-related outcomes now and in the future (Garcia-Hermoso et al., 2019; Hogstrom et al., 2019; Kodama et al., 2009; Ortega et al., 2008; Smith et al., 2014; Soysal et al., 2021).”
Background
The Impact of Typical School Provision of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sports on Adolescent Physical Health: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Rocliffe, P., Tapia‐Serrano, M. Á., García‐González, L., Adamakis, M., Walsh, L., Bannon, A., Mulhall, E., Sherwin, I., O’Keeffe, B. T., McNamara, P., et al. (2024) · Adolescent Research Review · doi:10.1007/s40894-023-00231-x · Cited by 26
Handgrip strength, cardiometabolic risk and body composition in youth with type 1 diabetes: the Diactive-1 Cohort Study
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“37 Our results also showed that maintaining a high level of handgrip strength was associated with a lower likelihood of being classified as having a high CMR. Previous longitudinal analyses remain conflicted, with some suggesting a protective cardiovascular effect 38 while others show no impact.”
Handgrip strength has declined among people from Macao Special Administrative Region: A temporal trend analysis from 2001 to 2020
Choi, S. M., Tomkinson, G. R., Lang, J. J., Cadenas‐Sánchez, C., Dong, H., Lei, S., & Poon, E. T. (2025) · Journal of Sports Sciences · doi:10.1080/02640414.2025.2505384 · Cited by 9
“…demographic are less consistently documented, handgrip strength remains a significant predictor of overall and future muscular strength (Dooley et al., 2020; Fraser et al., 2021), bone and cardiometabolic health (Ortega et al., 2012), and early mortality (García-Hermoso et al., 2019) in later life.”
Association between handgrip strength and cardiovascular risk factors among Korean adolescents
Kim, K. K., Lee, K. R., & Hwang, I. C. (2020) · Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism · doi:10.1515/jpem-2020-0167 · Cited by 9
“A recent meta-analysis of longitudinal studies indicated a negative association between muscular fitness in childhood/adolescence and CVD parameters in later life [5].”
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Correlations between muscle strength and psychological health in Chinese adolescents: a cross-sectional analysis
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A Trend Analysis of Adherence to the Muscle Strengthening Exercise Guidelines in US Adolescents
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“Beyond the efforts of surveillance and monitoring on trends in MSE in adults, less is studied on people under 18 years, even though children and adolescents can benefit from sufficient MSE [11, 12].”
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Effects of Physical Exercise on Executive Function in Adults with Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocol
Contreras-Osorio, F., Ramírez‐Campillo, R., Cerda-Vega, E., Campos-Jara, R., Martínez‐Salazar, C., Reigal, R. E., Morales‐Sánchez, V., Araya-Sierralta, S., & Campos‐Jara, C. (2022) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su142215158 · Cited by 11
Youth Physical Activity Is All About the “F-Words”
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Prospective physical fitness status and development of cardiometabolic risk in children according to body fat and lifestyle behaviours: The IDEFICS study
Santaliestra-Pasías, A. M., Moreno, L. A., Gracia‐Marco, L., Buck, C., Ahrens, W., Henauw, S. D., Hebestreit, A., Kourides, Y. A., Lauria, F., Lissner, L., et al. (2021) · Pediatric Obesity · doi:10.1111/ijpo.12819 · Cited by 8
Helping Children with Obesity “Move Well” To Move More: An Applied Clinical Review
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“The incorporation of both aerobic and strength training modalities ormovements is important to improve both cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle strength (102), which in turn is beneficial for adiposity and cardiometabolic health (1,103).”
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Authors: García-Hermoso, A., Ramírez-Campillo, R., & Izquierdo, M.
ORCID: García-Hermoso, Antonio
Ramírez-Campillo, Rodrigo
Izquierdo, Mikel
Venue: Sports Medicine
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2019-04-05
Volume: 49
Issue: 7
Pages: 1079-1094
ISSN: 0112-1642 (ISSN-L)
1179-2035
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-019-01098-6
OpenAlex: W2935554824
Cited by: 512
References: 82
Citations by year: 2026: 45 · 2025: 56 · 2024: 81 · 2023: 75 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 93 · 2020: 57 · 2019: 14
FWCI: 7.46
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Sports Medicine (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Academica-e (Universidad Pública de Navarra) (acceptedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Children's Physical and Motor Development
Keywords: muscular fitness, childhood, adolescence, body mass index, adiposity, cardiometabolic health, insulin resistance, triglycerides, cardiovascular risk, bone mineral density, musculoskeletal health, low back pain, grip strength, sit-ups, standing long jump, skinfold thickness
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Anthropometry, Child, Health Status, Humans, Physical Fitness, Bone Density, Body Mass Index, Adiposity, Muscle Strength

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