BRIT KIDS LACK FITNESS, SAYS STUDY
JUNIOR readers of this magazine aside, it seems that fitness levels among British schoolchildren are far from impressive. In a review published in the latest edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, an international collaboration of researchers assessed children from 50 countries over a series of 20m shuttle runs performed as a bleep test. It was a study of considerable size, involving 1.1 million schoolchildren aged 9-17.