Results associated with improvements in physical fitness, including muscular strength, endurance, healthier levels of blood pressure and cholesterol.
Initiative Description: Sessions of after-school aerobic exercise for girls and their mothers. Control group did not involve parent. Study Results: After-school PA significantly improved body mass index, resting heart rate, cardiorespiratory fitness, flexibility and muscle strength and endurance in children in both groups, and in mothers. Improvement in the physiological measures of the children in […]
The Learning, Cognition & Motion (LCoMotion) study. Initiative Description: A minimum of one teacher from each class at the intervention schools attended a course on incorporating physical activity into academic lessons. Scheduled activities during recess were initiated by teachers and volunteer students who received the course. Physical activity homework consisted of a booklet containing suggestions […]
Initiative Description: Children in the program play soccer three days a week (two practice days with up to two hours of moderate-to vigorous physical activity and one inter-school game day with a warm-up period followed by a one-hour game) and perform community service or undertake creative writing the remaining two days a week. Study Results: […]
ABC (Activity Bursts in the Classroom) https://lion.militaryfamilies.psu.edu/programs/activity-bursts-classroom-abc-fitness-program Initiative Description: Implementing the ABC (Activity Bursts in the Classroom) for Fitness program, plus a family/parental component to help families learn how to be more active together. Study Results: Improvement in physical fitness and BMI Reference: Katz, D. L., Cushman, D., Reynolds, J., Njike, V., Treu, J. A., […]
Initiative Description: Afterschool program of aerobic exercise for girls and their mothers, 2X / week. Study Results: Improvement in physical fitness and BMI. Reference: Kargarfard, M., Kelishadi, R., Ziaee, V., Ardalan, G., Halabchi, F., Mazaheri, R., & Hayatbakhsh, M. R. (2012). The impact of an after-school physical activity program on health-related fitness of mother/daughter pairs: […]
Initiative Description: 60-min daily PA lesson during the school week. Study Results: Significant improvements in Cardio Respiratory Fitness Reference: Resaland, G.K., Andersen, L.B., Mamen, A., & Anderssen, A. (2018). The effect of a two‐year school‐based daily physical activity intervention on a clustered CVD risk factor score—The Sogndal school‐intervention study. Scandinavioan Journal of Medicine & Science in […]
Action Schools! Initiative Description: Teachers in Intervention schools were asked to deliver 15 min of moderate to intense physical activity daily to achieve 75 min of extra physical activity per week (in addition to 2×40 min PE classes). Teachers provided opportunities in the classroom for students to ‘snack on physical activities’ such as skipping, dancing, […]
Initiative Description: Early morning physical activity program conducted about 40 minutes before the start of regular class. Study Results: Improvement of cardiorespiratory endurance and muscle strength Reference: Park, Y., & Moon, J. (2018). Effects of early morning physical activity on elementary school students’ physical fitness and sociality. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Students, 10(4). Level […]
Healthy Habits Program (HHP) Initiative Description: sessions were given before lunch and began with a brief 10-min talk about some of the healthy habits in question, such as diet, physical activity, sleep, and hygiene. This was followed by a physical exercise session consisting of a 15-min warm-up using games relating to the topic of the […]
Initiative Description: Multi-component physical activity program: daily physical education (i.e. two additional lessons per week on top of three regular lessons), short physical activity breaks during academic lessons, and daily physical activity homework, Study Results: Significant improvements in Cardio Respiratory Fitness. Reference: Meyer, U., Schindler, C., Zahner, L., Ernst, D., Hebestreit, H., Mechelen, W. van, […]
