HealthyLiving. - Here is How to Conceive an Athlete. A new study published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine in November suggests there might be: simply conceive your kid during the second half of winter. Children conceived at this time of year, the research suggests, are more physically fit and stronger than peers born in other months.
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The researchers, led by Dr. Gavin Sandercock, a clinical physiologist at the University of Essex, tested nearly 9,000 boys and girls between age 10 and 16 on tasks of strength, stamina, and cardiovascular fitness. Children born in October and November performed significantly better than the other kids. The study was designed, in part, to test whether birth month affects athleticism beyond the so-called relative age effect — given how age groupings are structured for youth sports leagues, kids born in certain months will enjoy a calendar-based advantage at certain junctures (more on this in a bit) — and it did, in fact, find an independent effect.
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