Background Physical activity interventions in schools environment seem to have shown some effectiveness in the control of the current obesity epidemic in children. However the complexity of behaviors and the diversity of influences related to this problem suggest that we urgently need new lines of insight about how to support ...
Summary There is an association between adiposity levels and physical activity guidelines for adolescents. Achieving physical activity recommendations helps adolescents to prevent obesity status. This paper presents an association between physical activity levels and obesity status. This paper supports physical activity recommendations to avoid children's obesity levels. This paper emphasizes ...
High physical fitness in childhood and adolescence is positively associated with favourable health-related outcomes. Our aim was to examine the relationship between relatives' (father, mother, brother, sister, and best friend) physical activity engagement and encouragement on adolescents' physical fitness. Adolescents were part of the HELENA study, a multi-centre study conducted ...
In this study, we evaluated agreement among three generations of ActiGraph™ accelerometers in children and adolescents. Twenty-nine participants (mean age = 14.2 ± 3.0 years) completed two laboratory-based activity sessions, each lasting 60 min. During each session, participants concurrently wore three different models of the ActiGraph™ accelerometers (GT1M, GT3X, GT3X+). Agreement among ...
Purpose The primary aim of this study was to objectively examine physical activity (PA) levels of girls during organized sport (OS), and to compare the levels between games and practices for the same participants. Secondary aims of this study were to document lesson context and coach behavior during practices and ...
Introduction It is strongly recommended to use objective measurements for the assessment of physical activity among children and adolescents. However, as some activities such as bicycling/inline skating/scooter are incorrectly recorded by accelerometer, assisting methods are needed to obtain correct data. The aim of the study was to examine ...
Introduction Project FFAB is an exploratory controlled before and after study of the effects of a practical and engaging low-volume high-intensity training (HIT) intervention on cardio-metabolic risk markers. The extent to which adaptations to HIT can be maintained is unknown (Gibala & McGee, 2008). We aimed to evaluate the maintenance of ...
Purpose To determine the effect of body mass index (BMI) on level of agreement between six previously established prediction equations for three commonly used accelerometers to predict summary measures of energy expenditure (EE) in youth. Methods One hundred thirty-one youth between the ages of 10-17 years and BMI from 15 to 44 ...
Introduction Evidences show that physical activity (PA) has important health benefits in youth. However, incidental PA and exercise declines during adolescence (Van der Horst et al., 2007). There is also an emerging concern about the negative effect that sedentary lifestyles are having on the health of youth (Pate et al., 2011). The ...
Introduction School-based interventions which include efforts to increase physical activity (PA) may promote a healthy weight development in adolescents, but results are inconsistent (Brown et al., 2009). One possible explanation for low efficacy or effectiveness is limited evidence as to how interventions induce behaviour change (Baranowski et al., 2005). The purpose of ...