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Does living in urban or rural settings affect aspects of physical fitness in children? An allometric approach. [PDF]
The aim of this study was to investigate physical fitness in relation to fatness in urban and rural Greek children by means of allometric scaling. METHODS: The sample consisted of 360 (189 urban and 171 rural; age 12.3+/-0.42 years) boys and 247 (125 ...
Tsimeas, P. D. +10 more
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Study for Determination of the Fitness Level of the Students by Using the Eurofit Battery Tests
A good fitness level provides individual ability to perform daily tasks and reduce the incidence of certain diseases. The research hypothesis was that curricular and extra-curricular activities of students performing various physical activities influence the fitness level of the subjects.
Florin Valentin Leuciuc, Gheorghe Pricop
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Physical Fitness and BodyWeight in Pre-Adolescent School Children: The EUROFIT Motor Fitness Test Explored on 11-12-Year-Old Children. [PDF]
Nowadays, the early prevention of obesity in childhood is one of the most critical public health issues. More than half of children and adolescents worldwide do not meet the recommendation of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day ...
Gabriele Russo +4 more
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Relationship between overweight, obesity and physical fitness of thirteen and fourteen-year-old Macedonian adolescent [PDF]
The aim of this research is to determine the fitness level of the Macedonian adolescents, including adolescents from both sexes with different variables of their body mass indexes (BMI).
Vujica Živkovic +4 more
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IMPACT OF GYMNASTICS PROGRAM ON HEALTH-RELATED FITNESS IN ADOLESCENT PUPILS
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of gymnastics program in school on health related fitness in adolescent pupils. The study involved 58 adolescent pupils (14.82±0.44 years) attending the first grade at high school involved in a 12 week ...
Nebojša Trajković +4 more
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Fiabilidade da bateria de testes EuroFit para pessoas com esquizofrenia - estudo piloto [PDF]
A esquizofrenia é uma doença mental grave que afeta cerca de 21 milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo, esta poderá resultar da interação de fatores genéticos e fatores ambientais.
Ângela Vieira Botelho
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Background and Aim. Overweight prevalence in children and adolescents shows great variability which is related to individual‐level and environmental‐level factors. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of and factors associated with overweight in Peruvian children and adolescents living at different altitudes. Methods. 8568 subjects, aged
Carla Santos +7 more
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Physical fitness and psychosocial health in a sample of Dutch adolescents
Adolescence is characterized by profound changes in body and behavior, and not surprisingly during this developmental phase the risk of developing psychosocial problems increases dramatically.
Barbara Franca Haverkamp +2 more
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Objective. To analyse the effect of the manual ischemic compression (IC) on the upper limb motor performance (MP) in patients with LTrPs. Materials and Methods. A quasiexperimental study was performed in twenty subjects allocated to either patients group with LTrPs (PG, n=10) or healthy group with no symptoms (HG, n=10).
Danilo Esparza +3 more
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Context: Despite evidence of therapeutic benefits of yoga on school children, many schools do not include yoga in their daily schedule. Reasons cited are lack of time and resources.
Atul Sinha, Sony Kumari
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