Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations among measured physical fitness, perceived fitness, intention towards future physical activity and self-reported physical activity through junior high school years. Methods: Study participants included 122 Finnish students who were 13 years old during Grade 7. The sample was comprised of 80 girls and 42 boys from 3 junior high...

purpose to translate long form, interview-administered international physical activity questionnaire (ipaq) from english to persian and evaluate its validity, reliability and reproducibility. methods a forward-backward translation procedure was followed to develop the persian version of the ipaq. a total of 218 respondents (53.7% women, aged 22–76 yr) completed the persian version in tehran, ir...

BACKGROUND Sedentary behaviour is a major risk factor for developing chronic diseases and is associated with low cardiorespiratory fitness in adults. It remains unclear how sedentary behaviour and different physical activity subcomponents are related to cardiorespiratory fitness in children. The purpose of this study was to assess how sedentary behaviour and different physical activity subcompo...

BACKGROUND The high educated live longer and healthier lives when compared to the low educated. Physical fitness as a health indicator reflects the level of physical activity along with other health-influencing factors such as obesity, smoking, chronic diseases and individual training effects. Studies support that self-rated physical fitness correlates with objectively measured physical fitness...