A physically active lifestyle was encouraged, but no physical activity programs were offered to the intervention group.
In Arkansas, the program was a success but a financial crunch prompted the state legislature recently to cut physical activity programs in seventh through 12th grade.
But in doing so, it subtly reinforces the importance of recess and similar physical activity programs in schools, its authors believe.
The city health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, said that his department was also working to improve the health of the city's children through screenings, immunizations, nutrition services and support for physical activity programs.
School-based physical activity programs are only effective for increasing adolescents' school-based physical activity.
The fast growth of interactive games has a great impact on school-based physical activity programs.
Such findings may have important clinical application when attempting to engage otherwise behaviourally disengaged populations into structured physical activity programs.
Physical activity programs adapted to the elderly have been proposed with the purpose of minimizing the alterations provoked by aging.
The purpose of this study was to determine what attracted and sustained women to participate in physical activity programs.
Websites have the potential to deliver enhanced versions of targeted and tailored physical activity programs to large numbers of participants.
Reviews focusing on the effectiveness of physical activity programs [31 33] show diverse results for the effectiveness of different kinds of program (see also [31 33]).
