BACKGROUND Generating percentile values is helpful for the identification of children with specific fitness characteristics (i.e., low or high fitness level) to set appropriate fitness goals (i.e., fitness/health promotion and/or long-term youth athlete development). Thus, the aim of this longitudinal study was to assess physical fitness development in healthy children aged 9-12 years and to co...

[Purpose] The study aimed to investigate the effects of daily living occupational therapy and resistance exercise on the performance of activities of daily living and muscular fitness in a patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome. [Subject and Methods] A 35-year-old man was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome. He was hospitalized at A Hospital for 3 years, and was discharged from the hospital af...

Study purpose. The main purpose of this study was to determine the effect calisthenics exercise on physical fitness.
 Materials and methods. 28 obese female students aged 20–30 with a BMI ranging between 30 kg/m2 35 were involved in study. Participants randomly divided into three groups which comprised group, an aerobic control group. Sit reach test (flexibility), sit up (muscular enduranc...

The aim of this study was to examine the association of perceived respiratory and muscular exertions and associated training load (TL) for monitoring changes in several aerobic fitness and neuromuscular performance parameters during 32 weeks of soccer training in young professional players. Twenty male soccer players (age=20.6±1.8 years, body height=1.80±.06 m, body mass=73.6±6.7 kg) belonging ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of the Active Teen Leaders Avoiding Screen-time (ATLAS) intervention for adolescent boys, an obesity prevention intervention using smartphone technology. METHODS ATLAS was a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted in 14 secondary schools in low-income communities in New South Wales, Australia. Participants were 361 adolescent b...

The purpose was to examine the correlation and association between a single-item question of self-rated physical fitness objective measures cardiometabolic risk factors in large population-based study. Participants were 3441 men women aged 18-85 years who filled questionnaire participated clinical health examination Danish Health Examination Survey 2007-2008. Cardiorespiratory estimated by an i...