The case for retiring flexibility as a major component of physical fitness

JL Nuzzo - Sports Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Flexibility refers to the intrinsic properties of body tissues that determine maximal joint range
of motion without causing injury. For many years, flexibility has been classified by the …

Effects of exercise in improving cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight children: A systematic review and meta-analysis

SS Busnatu, LI Serbanoiu, AE Lacraru, CL Andrei… - Healthcare, 2022 - mdpi.com
This meta-analysis aims to evaluate the effects of exercise in improving cardiometabolic risk
factors in overweight children and adolescents until the adolescent age, which is 18 years. A …

Effects of strength training on body fat in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity: a systematic review with meta-analysis

LD Méndez-Hernández, E Ramírez-Moreno… - Children, 2022 - mdpi.com
Childhood overweight and obesity represent a growing public health problem worldwide.
Since the 1980s, the global prevalence of overweight and obesity in childhood and …

Body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness in overweight or obese people post COVID-19: A comparative study

MM Lemos, GR Cavalini… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The present study aimed to evaluate the body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness of
overweight or obese people after COVID-19. 171 volunteers of both sexes (men, n= 93 and …

Concurrent training promotes greater gains on body composition and components of physical fitness than single-mode training (endurance or resistance) in youth with …

M Bouamra, H Zouhal, S Ratel, I Makhlouf… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The prevalence of obesity in the pediatric population has become a major public health
issue. Indeed, the dramatic increase of this epidemic causes multiple and harmful …

Effects of 12 weeks of family and individual multi-disciplinary intervention in overweight and obese adolescents under cardiometabolic risk parameters: A clinical trial

DC de Souza Marques, LR dos Santos Moraes… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Adolescence is a complex period of human development in which young people are
susceptible to unhealthy behaviors, such as physical inactivity and an unbalanced diet. This …

[HTML][HTML] Proposal of a normative table for body fat percentages of Brazilian young adults through bioimpedanciometry

BHM Branco, MP Bernuci, DC Marques… - Journal of exercise …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Identification of the body fat (BF) percentage allows health professionals to detect healthy or
risky patterns in a population. However, no studies have elaborated BF cutoff points using …

Effects of the order of physical exercises on body composition, physical fitness, and cardiometabolic risk in adolescents participating in an interdisciplinary program …

BHM Branco, D Valladares, FM De Oliveira… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of the order of physical
exercises on body composition, physical fitness, and cardiometabolic risk in adolescents …

Sports and functional training improve a subset of obesity-related health parameters in adolescents: A randomized controlled trial

BHM Branco, IR Mariano, LP De Oliveira… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
To investigate the effects of two different modes of physical activity on body composition,
physical fitness, cardiometabolic risk, and psychological responses in female adolescents …

Impacts of a Multi-Professional Family versus Isolated Intervention on Food Level Processing in Overweight Adolescents: A Randomized Trial

DCS Marques, WC Ferreira, IC Santos, JJ Ryal… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
The food consumption of adolescents has changed nowadays, with an increase in ultra-
processed food that in general shows higher calories and lower nutrients. Because of this …