Physical Activity, Television Watching, And Health Related Physical Fitness In Children With Obesity

This chapter discussed the importance of physical fitness concerning adult learners' readiness to participate meaningfully in academia. Despite the importance of health-related physical fitness, not many adults seem to have given the issue (physical fitness) the needed attention. The chapter focused on the issues associated with a reduced level of physical activity participation, and the changing modes of transportation, and how the issues could interfere with learning if not addressed — suggestions on how to improve physical fitness while learning constitutes parts of the discussion.

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Advancing health-enhancing physical activity at workplace: Sport4Heath 2020 scientific forum

BMC Proceedings ◽

10.1186/s12919-020-00196-y ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (S16) ◽

Author(s):

Nikola Todorovic ◽

Valdemar Stajer ◽

Bojana Harrison ◽

Darinka Korovljev ◽

Neboja Maksimovic ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Resistance Exercise ◽

Work Performance ◽

Work Place ◽

The European Union ◽

Working Population ◽

Exercise Programs ◽

Exercise Interventions ◽

Health Related

AbstractPhysical activity at workplace can positively impact various wellbeing outcomes yet developing and implementing exercise programs that are straightforward, time-efficient and widely applicable remains a notable public health challenge. Sport4Health Network (SPORT4H) project co-funded by the European Union Erasmus+ programme unites health and sport professionals in an effort to encourage participation in physical activity among working population and reduce health risk factors for lifestyle diseases. A two-day SPORT4H scientific forum on non-traditional types of work-place exercise interventions was organized from 14th to 15th September 2020, to critically evaluate evidence on stretching and resistance exercise programs targeted to working population in aim to identify knowledge gaps and future areas of research and application. Evidence on traditional interventions (e.g., walking initiatives, active travel) appears more robust while only few studies evaluated the applicability of non-traditional PA programs in working population. However, we identified a moderate-to-strong link between non-traditional PA programs at the workplace and several health-related physical fitness indices, with resistance exercise turned out to be superior to other exercise interventions analyzed. It appears that low-volume high-repetition resistance exercise favorably affects musculoskeletal disorders, work performance and health-related quality of life in employees who exercised at least 3 times per week for over 8 weeks. In terms of safety, screening protocols should employ health-related questionnaires, adopting a progressive training load, and prescribing training programs to individual participants’ needs. Implementing non-traditional PA programs aimed to improve health-related physical fitness and counteract sedentary behavior at workplace might be therefore of utmost importance to contribute to health promotion in this sensible population.

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Adapted Physical Activity: Influential Impacts to Establish a Field of Study

Kinesiology Review ◽

10.1123/kr.2014-0037 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 53-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jeff McCubbin

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Motor Performance ◽

State University ◽

Adapted Physical Activity ◽

Easy Task ◽

Health Related ◽

Sociopolitical Influences ◽

Oregon State University

The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe key research contributions that have shaped the field of adapted physical activity. That was not an easy task as the area of adapted physical activity is relatively new. The field is also quite broad and has been influenced by many people and sociopolitical influences. In an effort to constrain the scope of influences, this paper will focus on studies related to motor performance and health-related physical fitness of persons with intellectual disabilities (ID). This was done in part because that is an area where I believe that my work and that of students and colleagues at Oregon State University, helped to contribute small fraction of what is known and in a way to help substantiate how much more there is to know. It is challenging to answer the questions of whose work significantly influenced what we now know about the health and fitness status of persons with ID. And more importantly what direction does this area of research need to go for us to change health related outcomes of this group?

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