Physical fitness for children
Field-based tests for the assessment of physical fitness in children and adolescents practicing sport: a systematic review within the ESA program
... Most of the studies assessing the coordination of young athletes used the KTK, a valid test aimed at determining the gross motor coordination in school-aged children [152–154]. The ESA team has considered a new ...
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Secular Trends in Anthropometrics and Physical Fitness of Young Portuguese School-Aged Children
... in physical fitness scores throughout the four quinquennials when the effect of the covariates (age and BMI) was ...removed. Children from the 1993 cohort were less flexible than those from 2013 (p ...
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Health- and skill-related physical fitness profile of Brazilian children and adolescents: a systematic review
... the physical fitness is an essential activity to guide the quality of PE teachers’ interventions, considering their pedagogical inherent commitments to promote children and adolescents’ health, ...
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Effect of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections on physical fitness of school children in Cote d'Ivoire.
... individual physical fitness. They could again use a similar maximal physical capacity test like the one used in this study and which had the advantage that a group of children could be ...
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Multicomponent training with different frequencies on body composition and physical fitness in obese children
... Actually, children should benefit from the development of strength and cardiovascular parameters, being these two-important health- related physical fitness components (Ortega et ...and ...
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Football for health: Cardiovascular and physical fitness adaptations to football practice in pre-pubertal male children..
... However, physical fitness had influence on the slopes. Higher physical fitness corresponded to lower slopes for both phases of heart rate kinetics during the Yo-Yo ...fitter children ...
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Concurrent training in prepubertal children: different combination approaches between resistance and aerobic training in physical fitness variables
... The children should benefit from the development of strength and cardiovascular parameters and these two important health-related physical fitness components (Ortega et ...allow children to ...
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Determinants of physical fitness in prepubescent children and its training effects
... aerobic fitness (bicycle ergometer) and body composition (logarithm of sum of four skinfolds- loge skinfolds, and BMI), in 270 participants selected from 18 primary and secondary schools in Iceland (9- and ...the ...
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Developmental and physical-fitness associations with gross motor coordination problems in peruvian children
... This study has limitations, and need to be considered. The cross-sectional study design limits the interpretation of causal associations. The maturity offset is an indirect measure of somatic maturation, which does not ...
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Physical activity, physical fitness and motor competence according weight status: a study in Cape Verdean school children
... of physical activity (PA), physical fitness (PF) and motor competence (MC) according to the weight status, in schoolchildren from the Island of Santiago, Cape ...
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Effect of an intervention in Physical Education classes on health related levels of physical fitness in youth
... The children were informed about the time for execution of the test emphasizing the fact that they should run/walk as much as they could, avoi- ding sprints versus longs ...
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Proposals of cardiorespiratory fitness classification in children and adolescents: literature review
... Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a major variable in physical fitness. (1) There is a body of evidence showing its remarkable ability to protect against a number of chronic degenerative conditions ...
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Body mass index and physical fitness in Brazilian adolescents
... 27. Ng M, Fleming T, Robinson M, Thomson B, Graetz N, Margono C, et al. Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980---2013: a systema- tic analysis for ...
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Promoting health-related cardiorespiratory fitness in physical education : a systematic review
... corresponding physical fitness begins to show some decline [ 44 ...in physical activity in older students may explain why improvements in CRF for a given period of time are more fre- quently found in ...
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Anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics of young male soccer players
... The sample consisted of young male athletes rang- ing in age from 10 to 13 years, who are part of a player development program of one of the most important soccer clubs in Brazil. All boys partici- pating in this program ...
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HEALTH-RELATED PHYSICAL FITNESS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN: THE FITNESSGRAM PROGRAM
... of children and adolescents of the school population from Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil, who meet the health–related criteria determined by physical fitness ...The physical ...
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Physical Fitness Differences Between Prepubescent Boys and Girls
... many children drop out of sport and physical activity is that they feel they do not have the necessary skills to be ...the physical capabilities in which boys and girls are higher but also the ...
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A comparison of physical fitness by competitive levels in youth basketball players
... of physical activity, self-concept and self-efficacy in high school students ...ACSM physical activity recommendations ...1197 Physical activity level and perceptions about exercise in patients with ...
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Cardiorespiratory fitness in children and adolescents. Assessment, reference standards and associations with metabolic risk and physical activity
... improve physical fitness, cardiovascular, metabolic and bone health and to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression (Janssen, 2007; Strong et ...of physical activity (self- reported by ...
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Active commuting and physical fitness : a systematic review
... Abstract: Physical fitness (PF) is considered an excellent biomarker of ...on children and adolescents screened, eight were cross-sectional, one prospective cohort, one quasi-experimental, and one ...
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