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Daily Activity Profiles Link to Fitness and Mobility in Older Adults

In an investigation published in the European Review of Aging and Physical Activity, researchers evaluated how naturally occurring combinations of…

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Health Promotion Starting with Workplace Physical Fitness Tests: Creating Workplaces Where People Can Continue to Work with Light-Labor Trainers

[Summary of this article] Workplace physical fitness tests serve as a catalyst for employees to understand their physical condition and…

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Physical fitness peaks at 35, regardless of exercise. The difference is made after that.

You get out of breath halfway up the stairs. In the evening, it’s harder to shake off fatigue than it…

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You’ve prepared your disaster kit. But what about your physical fitness?

March 11, 2011. I was on the 13th floor of a skyscraper in Shinjuku. The elevators stopped, and I went…

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When I connected ‘physical fitness testing’ to ‘disaster prevention,’ the conversation with local governments changed

This is the story I teased in my previous article about connecting physical fitness testing to disaster prevention. I will…

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What We Can See from Physical Fitness Tests

I sometimes hear from school teachers that they “want to raise the average score on physical fitness tests.” I understand…

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Boosting Children’s Motivation with Youth Baseball Physical Fitness ‘Record Meets’: How to Measure Pitching Speed, Long Toss, Swing Speed, and Base Running

*This article contains affiliate links (advertisements). Youth baseball coaches and parents, do you have these concerns? Even when you tell…

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Machine learning predicts next-year fitness assessment failure in university students

Routine physical fitness assessments collected from university students in China contained useful signals for identifying students who would fail the…

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Can the decline in children’s physical fitness be solved by school physical education alone?

While reading the newspaper this morning, an article caught my eye. “Incorporating ‘play’ into PE to foster a love for…

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Can the decline in children’s physical fitness be solved by school physical education alone?

While reading the newspaper this morning, an article caught my eye. “Incorporating ‘play’ into PE to foster a love for…