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Football to tackle overweight in children.
Oliver Faude,Oliver Faude,O. Kerper,M. Multhaupt,C. Winter,K. Beziel,Astrid Junge,Tim Meyer,Tim Meyer +8 more
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It can be concluded that a 6‐month football training is as efficacious in improving the physical capacity, health‐related fitness parameters and self‐esteem of overweight children as a standard exercise program.Abstract:
The present study aimed at analyzing the efficacy of a 6-month football training program compared with a standard exercise program on health and fitness parameters in overweight children. The study design was a 6-month, two-arm, parallel-group randomized trial. Twenty-two overweight children were randomly assigned to two groups (age=10.8+/-1.2 years, height=1.56+/-0.08 m, weight= 65.1+/-11.4 kg). One group conducted a football training program, and the other group an established standard sports program. Both interventions took place three times per week from mid-May to mid-November. Before, after 3 months and after the training period, comprehensive testing was conducted: anthropometric characteristics, cycling ergometry, psychometric monitoring as well as several motor ability tests. Maximal performance capacity increased and submaximal heart rate during cycling ergometry decreased significantly. Several motor skills as well as self-esteem also improved considerably. Body composition and other psychometric variables remained nearly unchanged. No relevant differences were observed between both exercise programs. It can be concluded that a 6-month football training is as efficacious in improving the physical capacity, health-related fitness parameters and self-esteem of overweight children as a standard exercise program. These results provide further evidence that playing football has significant health effects.read more
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International Olympic Committee consensus statement on the health and fitness of young people through physical activity and sport
Margo Mountjoy,Lars Bo Andersen,Neil Armstrong,Stuart J. H. Biddle,Colin Boreham,Hans-Peter Brandl Bedenbeck,Ulf Ekelund,Lars Engebretsen,Ken Hardman,Andrew P. Hills,Sonja Kahlmeier,Susi Kriemler,Estelle V. Lambert,Arne Ljungqvist,Victor Matsudo,Heather A. McKay,Lyle J. Micheli,Russell R. Pate,Chris Riddoch,Patrick Schamasch,Carl Johan Sundberg,Grant R. Tomkinson,Esther M. F. van Sluijs,Willem van Mechelen +23 more
TL;DR: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognizes the health and fitness benefits of physical activity and sport as stated in recommendation #51 from the Olympic Movement in Society Congress held in Copenhagen, 2009: Everyone involved in the Olympic movement must become more aware of the fundamental importance of Physical Activity and sport for a healthy lifestyle, not least in the growing battle against obesity, and must reach out to parents and schools as part of a strategy to counter the rising inactivity of young people as discussed by the authors.
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