Peak Aerobic Fitness of Visually Impaired and Sighted Adolescent Girls

This study compared the aerobic fitness of 10 visually impaired and 10 sighted girls who performed a discontinuous incremental treadmill test to exhaustion. It found that there was no significant difference between the peak oxygen intake of the two groups. The results indicate that visually impaired children can attain aerobic fitness levels similar to those of sighted children.

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