scholarly journals Análisis de la condición física en escolares extremeños asociada a las recomendaciones de práctica de actividad física vigentes en España. (Health-related physical fitness in schoolchildren and Spanish Physical Activity Guidelines)

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (13) ◽  
pp. 45-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto de la Cruz ◽  
José Pino
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Physical Activity Guidelines ◽  
Health Related

Relations Between Sedentary Behavior and FITNESSGRAM Healthy Fitness Zone Achievement and Physical Activity

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1006-1011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob S. Tucker ◽  
Scott Martin ◽  
Allen W. Jackson ◽  
James R. Morrow ◽  
Christy A. Greenleaf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Sedentary Behaviors ◽  
Middle School Children ◽  
Physical Activity Guidelines ◽  
Health Related ◽  
National Physical Activity

Purpose:To investigate the relations between sedentary behaviors and health-related physical fitness and physical activity in middle school boys and girls.Methods:Students (n = 1515) in grades 6–8 completed the Youth Risk Behavior Survey sedentary behavior questions, the FITNESSGRAM physical fitness items, and FITNESSGRAM physical activity self-report questions.Results:When students reported ≤ 2 hours per day of sedentary behaviors, their odds of achieving the FITNESSGRAM Healthy Fitness Zone for aerobic capacity, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition increased. Similarly, the odds of achieving physical activity guidelines for children increased when students reported ≤ 2 hours per day of sedentary behaviors.Conclusions:Results illustrate the importance of keeping sedentary behaviors to ≤ 2 hours per day in middle school children, thus increasing the odds that the student will achieve sufficient health-related fitness benefits and be more likely to achieve the national physical activity guidelines.

Best Practices for Meta-Reviews in Physical Activity and Health Research: Insights From the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee Scientific Report

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Linda S. Pescatello ◽  
Emily A. Hennessy ◽  
Peter T. Katzmarzyk ◽  
William E. Kraus ◽  
Anne F. Fish ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Physical Activity Guidelines ◽  
Health Related Research ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Scientific Report ◽  
Synthesis Methodology ◽  
High Level ◽  
Meta Analyses

Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) have proliferated with a concomitant increase in reviews of SRs/MAs or “meta-reviews” (MRs). As uncovered by the 2018 US Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee (PAGAC), there is a paucity of best practice guidance on MRs on physical activity health-related research. This manuscript aims to fill this gap. Methods: In total, the PAGAC conducted 38 literature searches across 3 electronic databases and triaged 20,838 titles, 4913 abstracts, and 2139 full texts from which 1130 articles qualified for the PAGAC Scientific Report. Results: During the MR process, the following challenges were encountered: (1) if the SR/MA authors had limited experience in synthesis methodology, they likely did not account for risk of bias in the conclusions they reached; (2) many SRs/MAs reviewed the same primary-level studies; (3) many SRs/MAs failed to disclose effect modifier analyses; (4) source populations varied; (5) physical activity exposures were nonstandardized; and (6) dose–response effects or effect modification of the physical activity exposure could not be identified. Conclusions: Using examples from the PAGAC Scientific Report, we provide (1) a high-level introduction to MRs; (2) recommended steps in conducting a MR; (3) challenges that can be encountered; and (4) guidance in addressing these challenges.

Issues of Health-Related Physical Fitness of the Adult Learner

2021 ◽  
pp. 1515-1536
Author(s):  
Donatus Udochukwu Chukwudo
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Adult Learner ◽  
Physical Activity Participation ◽  
Activity Participation ◽  
Health Related

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.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (S16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Todorovic ◽  
Valdemar Stajer ◽  
Bojana Harrison ◽  
Darinka Korovljev ◽  
Neboja Maksimovic ◽  
...  
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.

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

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-58 ◽  
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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