Cultivation Methods of Students’ Lifelong Physical Education Consciousness in High School Physical Education

School Physical Education, Extracurricular Sports, and Lifelong Active Living

The purpose of this article is to examine the role of school-based extracurricular initiatives in facilitating immediate and long-term positive impact on physical activity, healthy behavior, and obesity in children. A critique of the role of various sports-related initiatives that have been developed to address the obesity epidemic currently facing children within the United States is provided,...

Direct observation in high school physical education

Physical education, school physical activity, school sports and academic performance

BACKGROUND The purpose of this paper is to review relationships of academic performance and some of its determinants to participation in school-based physical activities, including physical education (PE), free school physical activity (PA) and school sports. METHODS Linkages between academic achievement and involvement in PE, school PA and sport programmes have been examined, based on a syst...

Prediction of enjoyment in school physical education.

The specific aim of this study was to examine whether motivational climate, perceived physical competence, and exercise motivation predict enjoyment in school physical education within the same sample of adolescents across three years of secondary school. A sample of 639 students (girls = 296, boys = 343) aged between 13- to 15-years at the commencement of the study completed the Intrinsic Moti...

Scores of fatigue complaints in high school students in physical education classes.

This study was undertaken to give scientific basis in introducing exercise into our daily lives. Fatigue scores, the Flicker value, the counter value, grip strength and counting steps were analyzed in 109 female high school students before and after physical education classes during the third school period. These female students were chosen because of their lower fatigue scores, particularly be...