https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archers-physical-condition Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archers-physical-conditionIn club, school and youth groups measured against reference tables, physical condition often comes out below average, strength above all: in the samples that show it most clearly, from twenty children taking up the sport to sixty youngsters aged 12 to 13 and twelve district-level archers, between 58 and 88 per cent fall in the lowest bands and hardly anyone reaches the good one, and in the district group all are below the norm for leg strength and aerobic capacity. The picture has three limits, though. The first is which quality: in fifteen university archers 73 per cent start in the lowest strength category but none in the lowest muscular endurance category, and in the district group back strength is the item where 42 per cent reach the good band. The second is level: six world-class recurve archers have average aerobic capacity, 45 ml/kg/min, not poor, and 160 children being started in archery in Manokwari, Indonesia, have a VO2max above the Jakarta references quoted by the authors. The third is the yardstick: almost all comparisons are with general-population norms, often Indonesian ones, in small groups and in regional or questionable journals, and no study compares archers and non-archers of the same age measured in the same way.claim:condizione-fisica-arcieri:revision:2026-07-10:3Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archers-physical-conditionclaim:condizione-fisica-arcieri:new_claim:2026-06-15:riportatoMon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT