Download or read book Assessment of Physical Fitness Needs Among College Students written by Christine M. Karshin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educating the Student Body written by Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.

Download or read book Physical Fitness in College Students written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obesity is a major problem facing the United States today. Physical inactivity can lead to obesity resulting in a variety of health problems, including premature death. Therefore the objective of the study was to identify physical fitness differences between gender, age, and physical activity level in college students. A fitness assessment test consisting of cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance was performed in seventy-nine (43 male, 36 female) subjects ranging in age from 18 to 22 years old. Results indicate greater physical fitness in upper classmen when compared to lower classmen. Also, our data indicate that students that exercise 150 or more minutes per week are more physically fit when compared to students that exercise less than 150 minutes per week. In conclusion, physical activity interventions should be offered to college students and especially underclassmen to decrease the incidence of inactivity and obesity.

Download or read book Health Opportunities Through Physical Education written by Charles B. Corbin and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative new textbook, with a full suite of related resources, has been created to support student development and enhancement of healthy behaviors that influence their lifestyle choices and fitness, health, and wellness. A key feature of this curriculum is the complete integration of physical education and health concepts and skills to maximize student interest, learning, and application. This objective was accomplished by combining the expertise of our author teams from two related textbooks--Fitness for Life, Sixth Edition, and Health for Life. This is not just a health textbook with a few physical education concepts thrown in. School systems that want a single textbook to help them address both physical education and health education standards will find that this book provides them a unique and cost-effective option. Health Opportunities Through Physical Education is available in print and digital formats, including an iBooks interactive version for iPads plus other e-book formats that students can use across a variety of platforms. Part I, Fitness for Life, will help students become physically literate individuals who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity. The book will guide students in becoming informed consumers on matters related to lifelong physical activity and fitness, taking responsibility for setting individualized goals, and making their own plans for active living. To accomplish this overarching goal, they learn a variety of self-management skills, including self-assessment. The program is based on established educational theory, which is outlined in the teacher web resources. And they learn all of this through a combination of classroom and physical activity lessons that meet national, state, and local physical activity guidelines and help instill a love for lifetime fitness activities. Part I also enables students to achieve the following goals: · Meet college and career readiness standards by learning and using critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving skills · Use the Stairway to Lifetime Fitness concept, created by author Chuck Corbin, to encourage higher-order learning (move from dependence to independence) · Perform self-assessments, including all tests in the Fitnessgram battery and the Presidential Youth Fitness Program Part I includes many features that actively engage students by allowing them to: • Assess their own fitness and other health and wellness factors to determine personal needs and assess progress resulting from healthy lifestyle planning. • Use Taking Charge and Self-Management features to learn self-management skills (e.g., goal setting, self-monitoring, self-planning) for adopting healthy lifestyles. • Learn key concepts and principles, higher-order information, and critical thinking skills that provide the basis for sound decision making and personal planning. • Do reading and writing assignments as well as calculations that foster college and career readiness. • Try out activities that are supported by lesson plans offered in the teacher web resources and that can help students be fit and active throughout their lives. • Take part in real-life activities that show how new information is generated by using the scientific method. • Become aware of and use technology to learn new information about fitness, health, and wellness and learn to discern fact from fiction. • Use the web and the unique web icon feature to connect to relevant and expanded content for essential topics in the student web resource. • Find Academic Connections that relate fitness topics to other parts of the curriculum such as science, language arts, and math. • Use other features such as fitness quotes, consumer corner, Fit Facts, and special exercise features (including exercise and self-assessment videos) that promote higher-order learning. • Focus their study time by following cues from Lesson Objectives and Lesson Vocabulary elements in every chapter. • Use the chapter-ending review questions to test their understanding of the concepts and use critical thinking and project assignments to meet educational standards, including college and career readiness standards. Part II, Health for Life, teaches high school students the fundamentals of health and wellness, how to avoid destructive habits, and how to choose to live healthy lives. This text covers all aspects of healthy living throughout the life span, including preventing disease and seeking care; embracing the healthy lifestyles choices of nutrition and stress management; avoiding destructive habits; building relationships; and creating healthy and safe communities. Part II also has an abundance of features that help students connect with content: • Lesson Objectives, Lesson Vocabulary, Comprehension Check, and Chapter Review help students prepare to dive in to the material, understand it, and retain it . • Connect feature spurs students to analyze various influences on their health and wellness. • Consumer Corner aids students in exploring consumer health issues. • Healthy Communication gets students to use and expand their interpersonal communication skills as they share their views about various health topics. • Skills for Healthy Living and Making Healthy Decisions help students learn and practice self-management so they can make wise choices related to their health and wellness. • Planning for Healthy Living assists students in applying what they’ve learned as they set goals and establish plans for behavior change. • Self-Assessment offers students the opportunity to evaluate their health habits and monitor improvement in health behaviors. • Find Academic Connections that relate fitness topics to other parts of the curriculum such as science, language arts, and math. • Take It Home and Advocacy in Action prepare students to advocate for health at home and in their communities. • Health Science and Health Technology focus on the roles of science and technology as they relate to health and where science and technology intersect regarding health issues. • Living Well News challenges students to integrate health literacy, math, and language skills to better understand a current health issue.

Download or read book A Needs Assessment for Physical Activity Programming on a College Campus Based on the Transtheoretical Model written by Shanon Mettling and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to assess the levels of physical activity and explore the needs of college students in regard to physical activity programming using the Transtheoretical Model (TTM). Six hundred and fifty-nine students at a Midwestern university completed a physical activity programming questionnaire and the Stages of Change questionnaire. After exclusions, 535 questionnaires were used for analysis. Descriptive statistics, frequencies, chi-square tests and Spearman's rank order correlation coefficients were used to analyze survey results. Of the students surveyed, 45.6% met aerobic physical activity guidelines and 38.5% met muscle-strengthening activity guidelines. Males participated in more physical activity than females in both categories. The greatest percentage of students was in the Maintenance stage of the TTM (38.1%). In regard to physical activity programming, the largest percentage of students wanted more variety in times and styles for cardio and strength classes. Programming efforts are needed to increase the percentage of females meeting guidelines. Future research could explore the effectiveness of utilizing TTM stage-matched programming strategies to improve college students' physical activity levels.

Download or read book Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical fitness affects our ability to function and be active. At poor levels, it is associated with such health outcomes as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Physical fitness testing in American youth was established on a large scale in the 1950s with an early focus on performance-related fitness that gradually gave way to an emphasis on health-related fitness. Using appropriately selected measures to collected fitness data in youth will advance our understanding of how fitness among youth translates into better health. In Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth, the IOM assesses the relationship between youth fitness test items and health outcomes, recommends the best fitness test items, provides guidance for interpreting fitness scores, and provides an agenda for needed research. The report concludes that selected cardiorespiratory endurance, musculoskeletal fitness, and body composition measures should be in fitness surveys and in schools. Collecting fitness data nationally and in schools helps with setting and achieving fitness goals and priorities for public health at an individual and national level.

Download or read book Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription written by Ann L. Gibson and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, Ninth Edition With HKPropel Online Video, is the definitive resource for conducting physical fitness testing and customizing exercise programs. Now in its ninth edition, this comprehensive guide is fully updated with the latest research, the newest exercise testing and prescription guidelines, and the most up-to-date programming content. The text reflects the most recent exercise testing and prescription guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), along with physical activity recommendations from the U.S. government and American Heart Association. It highlights ACSM guidelines for physical activity and exercise testing requirements to consider before beginning exercise programs. Combining important research with practical application of testing and prescription protocols, the ninth edition also features the following: A new full-color interior to provide more detail and understanding of concepts through photos and figures New step-by-step assessment sidebars that make it easy to locate and refer to assessment procedures Modern guidelines for usage of current technology to test and monitor physical activity Demonstrations of many of the assessments and exercises, provided in 73 video clips Structured around the five physical fitness components—cardiorespiratory capacity, muscular fitness, body composition, flexibility, and balance—the text begins with an overview of physical activity, health, and chronic disease, including discussion of preliminary health screenings and risk classification. Readers will gain insight into field and laboratory assessments and testing protocols for each component, along with detailed information on properly administering the most common assessments. The 73 related video clips, delivered online through HKPropel, provide detailed instruction and demonstration for performing many of the assessments and exercises; these include functional movement assessment, pull-up and push-up testing, flywheel training, and more. Finally, readers will turn research into practice by understanding how to design personalized exercise prescription, customized for each client based on individual assessment outcomes. Information on appropriate training methods and programming considerations are presented for each component of fitness. With an unparalleled depth of coverage and clearly outlined approach, Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription bridges the gap between research and practice for students and exercise professionals alike who are eager to increase their knowledge and skill in assessing elements of fitness and designing individualized exercise programs. Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam. Note: A code for accessing online videos is not included with this ebook but may be purchased separately.

Download or read book The Relation of Fitness Assessment Feedback to Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Activity Among College Students written by Chandler Laura and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Norms for College Students written by Russell R. Pate and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents an analysis of a normative study done to determine physical fitness norms of college age young adults. Data for this normative study were collected under the supervision of 24 coinvestigators who were affiliated with institutions distributed in all regions of the United States. The study presents the derivation of the college-age norms (including data collections methods, handing, and analyses) results of the normative study and the actual physical fitness test items (including distance runs, skinfold measurements, modified sit-ups, and flexibility-related exercises). Tables, figures, and illustrations of exercises are provided. (BA)

Download or read book Handbook on Physical Fitness for Students in Colleges and Universities written by United States. Office of Education. Committee on Wartime Physical Fitness for Colleges and Universities and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Computer Science Information Engineering and Digital Economy CSIEDE 2022 written by Haocun Wu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book.The 2022 International Conference on Computer Science, Information Engineering and Digital Economy(CSIEDE 2022) will be held on October 28-30 in Guangzhou, China. CSIEDE 2022 is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Computer Science, Information Engineering and Digital Economy to a common forum. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Computer Science, Information Engineering, Digital Economy and another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world. The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Computer Science, Information Engineering, Digital Economy and related areas. We warmly invite you to participate in CSIEDE 2022!

Download or read book Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Activity Applications written by Phillip A. Bishop and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a learner-oriented approach as it strives to make complex material understandable and usable. By understanding the underlying principles of measurement and evaluation, readers will then be able to apply those principles and concepts in a variety of physical activity and health-related settings. Practical exercises and applications demonstrate the usefulness of measurement and evaluation, reinforce key points, and make readers active participants in their own education. The book is divided into three parts. Part One introduces the measurement process, showing readers the relevance of measurement and evaluation to their personal and professional lives, and including examples and statistics related to such concepts as validity, reliability, and objectivity. The two chapters in Part Two further help readers understand numbers and assist those who need to use more advanced statistical calculations. Part Three presents measurement and evaluation applications in various settings, such as measuring physical fitness; measuring exercise, physical activity, and health; measuring in competitive sports and coaching; measuring and evaluating knowledge and assigning grades; and measuring in research. Throughout, discussions and examples show the relevance and application of measurement and evaluation in various professions, including physical therapy, athletic training, fitness/wellness management, exercise and sport psychology, exercise science, coaching, and physical education.

Download or read book Assessment of Emotional Intelligence and Physical Activity Among College Students written by Amir Bhochhibhoya and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring a Mind body Fitness Program Among College Students with and Without ASD written by Ngozichukwu Nnoli and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many college students with and without ASD tend to live a more inactive lifestyle and experience challenges in meeting the physical activity guidelines of at least 150min/week, putting their health at risk of developing chronic conditions. These findings suggest a need to find ways to promote physical activity in the young-adult population. Self-determination is a motivational theory that argues that all human beings have universal needs that can be used to motivate and enhance all human activity. The fulfillment of the basic psychological needs can help explain motivation on a continuum, from being unmotivated to being intrinsically motivated. Therefore, this research aimed to explore the experiences of college students' participation in a 10-week, virtual, peer-mentored physical activity and mindfulness intervention program through self-determination theory. The first author used a traditional qualitative inquiry design, and 4 participants (1 ASD, 3 Non-ASD) took part in interviews. This study employed a purposeful sampling method to include college students (Meanage= 21 years) from the peer mentored physical activity and mindfulness intervention program. The four college students who completed the intervention program participated individually in in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Following a deductive thematic analysis, four themes were identified: (a) perceived control (sense of choice and sense of self), (b) skill development (increase of knowledge and perceived progress and improvements), (c) belongingness (feeling part of a group and feeling cared for), and (d) connectedness (persistence and companionship). These findings deepen understanding of how basic psychological need fulfillment can provide invaluable opportunities for enhanced physical activity engagement. A basic psychological need-supportive environment in a physical activity context is important for influencing activity motivation in young adults with and without ASD.

Download or read book Assessment of Physical Activity in College Students by Pedometer and Questionnaire written by Tonia K. Gay and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Education and Information Technology IEIT 2022 written by Ahmed El-Hashash and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-14 with total page 1083 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. As a leading role in the global megatrend of scientific innovation, China has been creating a more and more open environment for scientific innovation, increasing the depth and breadth of academic cooperation, and building a community of innovation that benefits all. These endeavors have made new contribution to globalization and creating a community of shared future. To adapt to this changing world and China's fast development in this new area, the 2nd International Conference on Internet, Education and Information Technology (IEIT 2022) is to be held in April 15-17, 2022. This conference takes “bringing together global wisdom in scientific innovation to promote high-quality development" as the theme and focuses on research fields including information technology, education, big data, and Internet. This conference aims to expand channels of international academic exchange in science and technology, build a sharing platform of academic resources, promote scientific innovation on the global scale, improve academic cooperation between China and the outside world. It also aims to encourage exchange of information on research frontiers in different fields, connect the most advanced academic resources in China and abroad, turn research results into industrial solutions, bring together talents, technologies and capital to boost development.

Download or read book Lifetime Physical Fitness written by Virginia Politano and published by . This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: