Do recreational team sports provide fitness and health benefits?

Sports Health Benefits of Vitamin D

CONTEXT Vitamin D is a potent secosteroid hormone that provides many skeletal and extraskeletal health benefits. Musculoskeletal injury prevention and recovery are potentially affected by sufficient circulating levels of the storage form of vitamin D: 25-hydroxyvitamin D3, or 25(OH)D. Vitamin D deficiency can exist among young, active, and healthy people, which may put them at increased risk fo...

Aerobic Physical Fitness and Recreational Sports Participation After Total Knee Arthroplasty

CONTEXT Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is routinely performed in younger patients who desire to be active in fitness and recreational sports. The activities patients can participate in without symptoms and the level of aerobic fitness routinely maintained are important to investigate. OBJECTIVE To determine physical activity (PA) and recreational sports resumed after primary TKA, symptoms or l...

Brazilian fitness programme registers health benefits.

4 years after a government plan to build more walking and cycling tracks, parks, and leisure spaces, Sorocaba—a city of 600 000 inhabitants in the state of São Paulo, Brazil—has recorded a 50% decrease in hospital admissions for hypertension (from 1·89 cases per 10 000 people in 2008 to 0·99 in 2011). This result is linked to the adoption of the principles of Agita São Paulo, a comprehensive pr...

Recreational Benefits Transfer Project

Anthropometric and Physical Fitness Differences Among Brazilian Adolescents who Practise Different Team Court Sports

The objective of this work was to compare the anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics of Brazilian adolescents who practise team court sports and to compare specific parameters obtained for adolescents with data from the general population. This was a cross-sectional study of 1,348 male adolescents grouped as follows: basketball players (n = 287), indoor soccer players (n = 665), ha...