The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of motivation on the rate of participation elders in sport for all. The research methodology was correlative descriptive and was done by field study. The population was all male and female elders of Ahwaz; the number of whom was 49.558 based on 1385 census. The sample was chosen randomly 380 individuals. Measurement tools were individual ...

Background: Indices of lifestyle (i.e. physical health, exercise-fitness, nutrition, prevention of diseases, mental health, spiritual health, social health, avoid of drugs and narcotics, prevention of events and environmental health), blood pressure and cardiorespiratory fitness associated with coronary artery disease. However, there is limited research about which variables are important. Thus...

Background and Objective: Physical activity plays an important role in quality of life and body composition.This study amid to evaluate physical activity and its effect on body composition and quality of life. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was designed and approved by Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS) ethical committee.A total of 101 women f...

Introduction and purpose: Falls and fear of falling are elderly outcomes and are of main health-related problems in older adults. Purpose of this research was to compare health-related quality of life and functional fitness of older adults with and without fear of falling and fall history. Materials and Methods: Research method was descriptive and population were men older adults living in A...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of exercise and fitness education on physical fitness factors. 84 healthy non-athlete student (mean age 12.5±0.49 yrs, mean height 153.8±6.1 cm, mean wieght 46.25±7.3 kg) who had not regular activities for more than 6 months were voluntarily participated in this study. They were randomly divided among three groups: training-education (n=28),...