Introduction: Many children fail to meet international guideline recommendations for health-related activity (≥60 minutes/day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity [MVPA]), and intervention studies to date have reported negligible effects.
Objective: Explore the associations of organized leisure-time sport participation with overall physical activity levels and health-related physical activity guideline concordance.
Methods: This ...
The purpose of this study was to provide further insight into the limited amount of data that exists on both the dietary practices and energy expenditure of adolescent academy-level football players. Ten male adolescent football players, representing a professional club at academy level (mean ± SD: 15.4 ± 0.3 years; height 1.7 ± 0.1m; weight 57.8 ± 7.8kg ...
Purpose: Grounded in self-determination theory (Deci and Ryan, 2000) and achievement goal theory (Ames, 1992, Nicholls, 1989) this study tested a hypothesised model linking perceptions of the coach-created motivational climate within youth sport (i.e., empowering and disempowering dimensions; Duda, 2013), to motivation regulations and objectively measured daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary ...
Background: Observational studies have shown that individuals can be both highly sedentary and highly active, and active people sit as much as those who do not meet the physical activity guidelines. It is not known how sedentary behavior changes in response to significant exercise training, such as training for ...
Background: Participation in moderate physical activity (PA) as a means of eliciting health-related benefits is consistently recommended through the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines and the ACSM-AHA Physical Activity Recommendations. Many try to meet this requirement by participating in PA that fit both their functional abilities and personality. However, quantifying the intensity ...
An examination of the effects of a training program that maximizes caloric expenditure may help gain a better understanding of potential strategies that may be used in future exercise training programs targeting weight loss.
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore whether endurance training alters energy balance via ...