The research on anaerobic ability of the young has often been lacking in recent years, this is somewhat confusing in relation to the amount of anaerobic energy used daily during childhood and adolescence. Activity patterns in children are characterised by short bursts of exercise therefore this pattern, perhaps, optimises the anabolic effect of exercise in the growing child.

Tennis players who learn to anticipate an opponent's return shot direction through their own experience perform better than players who receive explicit instruction about key postural anticipation cues underpinning successful performance, finds a study in APA's Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (Vol. 11, No. 2).