Building Lifelong Movement: The Value of Fundamental Movement Skills in Childhood
Developing a lifelong love of movement begins with mastering the basics – what are known as Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS).…
Enhancing Youth Fitness: Effective Development Models
Today’s youth are physically weaker than previous generations, and a vast majority are not accumulating at least 60 minutes of…
Boosting Youth Fitness with Ready, Steady, Go
Despite public health guidelines that recognise the many benefits of regular physical activity, only 1 out of 5 adolescents meet…
Understanding the Relative Age Effect
The relative age effect refers to the tendency for children born near an age cut-off date to experience advantages in…
Impact of Maturation on Childhood Fitness
The changes in physical fitness that occur throughout childhood and adolescence are largely the result of changes in body size…
Understanding Child Development: Chronological vs Biological Age
Monitoring a child’s development can be quite difficult, as each child experiences puberty and growth spurts at their own unique…
How to Predict Your Child’s Growth Spurt
A method has been developed to estimate maturity and forecast a child’s growth spurt using age, height, sitting height, and…
Understanding Growth, Maturation, and Development in Children
An understanding of growth, maturation, and development is essential for those working with children. An awareness of the individual differences…
Tackling Youth Physical Inactivity: A Call to Action
A change in attitude is urgently needed because what we are currently doing clearly isn’t working
GET READY Pre-Season Programme: 6 Weeks to Prepare Your Players
So with a blink of an eye pre-season is upon us, the kids are about to break for the summer…
Exercise intensity – what’s the difference?
Whenever possible, it’s recommended to be active every day. 150 minutes of moderate intensity, or 75minutes of vigorous intensity physical…
How much physical activity is enough to benefit your health?
Sedentary behaviour is commonplace around the world! Sedentary behaviour is not simply a lack of physical activity. It is spending…
6 thing’s that happen inside your body when you exercise
Regular physical activity is good for us. It reduces our risk of cardiovascular disease and up to 13 different types…
Regular Physical Activity: 6 things that happen inside your body that benefit your health
Regular physical activity is good for us! It reduces our risk of cardiovascular disease and up to 13 different types…
When did we realise Physical Activity was important for public health?
Physical Activity research did not gather full steam until landmark scientific consensus meetings in 1984 (Atlanta) and 1988 (Toronto). These…
When did we discover that Physical Activity was good for our health?
It was not until the years between the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) and World War I (1914-1918) that physicians became…
Physical Activity in the Middle Ages
During the Middle Ages in Europe, when the influence of Greek writings was obscured awaiting their rediscovery in the Renaissance,…
The Ancient practice of Physical Activity
Physical activity emerged as a new field of study about 70 years ago and has only grown to include public…
5 Reasons why Physical Activity is good for you
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality and is…
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