Summary: A new study finds that just 1 in 4 young teens meet U.S. fitness guidelines. The study finds that most kids ages 12 to 15 aren’t getting enough physical activity. The results are based on about 800 kids. The young teens tracked and reported on their own activity levels, and took physical exams. U.S. fitness guidelines recommend an hour or more of physical activity every day. According to the study, only 1 in 4 U.S. kids meet the recommendation. Few kids in the survey met the guidelines for physical activity that raises the heart rate and makes you breathe harder. However, most of those kids said they did at least an hour of exercise at that level during the previous week. Overall, about 25% said they got an hour of that kind of strenuous exercise every day. Kids also reported on which activities they did most often outside of school gym class—basketball for boys and running for girls. The study found that obese teens were less active than normal-weight girls and boys. The study also says that the overall obesity rate for children aged 2 to 19 is 17%, or about 12.5 million kids. Pont said research suggests kids who get physical education at school may get better grades. He said schools can help giving kids more time for physical activity.
Connection with health class: We have talked in class about obesity and we have learned that obesity levels have increased in the past decades in the United States. Fitness affect on obese population and on people's physical health. Each day there are more things to do other than play sports, like technologies. People prefer to play videogames instead of going out and do exercise. That can also affect obesity levels.
Questions: How often do you exercise? How much time do you spend doing exercise out of school hours? Which sports do you practice?
I often exercise every weekend and in the week days I do cross country. I usually do core workouts and use 15 pound dumbbells off of school. In cross country we do endurance runs and speed workouts
ReplyDeleteI am a gymnast, and I train 26 hours a week. In addition to physically tiring routines, we do lots of strength conditioning and cardio.
ReplyDeleteI am a tennis player and I exercise around 5-6 hours per week when I am mildly busy. I sprint during lessons and during PE, but other than that, I don't have much exercise outside of school. I don't think that I am thaaaaat unfit, but I think I should exercise more.
ReplyDeleteIt's very important to do exercise, because as the article says, many teens do not meet the fitness guidelines, and do not get enough physical activity, so it's important to do sports do stay fit and healthy
ReplyDeleteI mostly exercise every day. I run around the block 6 times. I also do push up after i run and then when I am all done I stretch for the next day I can't be sore.
ReplyDeleteI exercise everyday. I practice gymnastics 22 hours a week. Mondays through Fridays I practice 3.5 hours a day. On Saturdays I practice 4 hours. On Sundays I don't go to the gym, but I do conditioning at home for about 30 minutes to an hour.
ReplyDeleteI exercise five days a week. I practice softball and basketball. I have been doing condition for softball lately because i play year around. I stretch and do sit up and push ups like every other day.
ReplyDeleteI exercise about everyday, I practice volleyball about 16 hours a week and soccer about 20 hours a week. I usually do conditioning ones or twice a week for both sports. I have to do lots of legs and core workouts.
ReplyDeleteI exercise everyday with either soccer or volleyball. Outside of that I don't necessarily need to work out due to conditioning during practices. With soccer it is constant cardio workouts, and we do a lot of push-ups for punishment. For volleyball we do jump training, so basically leg workouts and reaction training.
ReplyDeleteI exercise 6 days a week which is for football. Football practice is usually two to about three hours long and is always during the afternoon in the hot sun besides saturdays when its at 9 am. During practice we can run from one mile to three miles and do a variety of psychical enduring activities. I plan on playing baseball which will also have conditioning which is not as severe as football but is still a workout. For baseball I will be trying out for catcher which takes strong leg muscles and a lot of squats.
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I exercise 6-7 days a week due to soccer. Sometimes I go running on my own time. For soccer, every Tuesday is our workout day. We do stretches, core workouts, push-up, sit-ups, and we do running. For running we do short distance for quick sprints, and long distances for stamina.
ReplyDeleteI exercise every 5-6 days a week due to football. I get to exercise for like 3 hours long. During practice we run a lot to get our conditioning for we can get used to not getting tired so much.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it important to get in your daily work out?
ReplyDeleteI usually exercise during the weekend. I run around the track of College of San Mateo to train for track in the spring and to stay in shape.
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