Interventions to Increase Physical Activity and Measurements to Evaluate Performance in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2025) | Viewed by 946
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
Interests: team sports; situational sports; field tests; technical and tactical aspects; performance analysis; training monitoring (session-RPE, HR responses, GPS, training/performance effects on grip strength and jump performance); physical activity in youth age
2. Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
Interests: video analysis exercise; science sports; science exercise performance; exercise physiology; sports medicine; physical activity in youth age
2. Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
Interests: aging; sports science; physical activity; exercise science; exercise performance; physical fitnes; exercise intervention; athletic performance; physical activity in youth age
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Specific considerations and health-related encouragements are fundamental to promoting physical activity (PA) for children and adolescents. International guidelines recommend that children and adolescents should spend at least an average of 60 min per day performing physical activity at moderate-to-vigorous intensity or several hours of a variety of structured and unstructured light PA across the week to lead a correct lifestyle that limits sedentary behavior (especially recreational screen time).
Actually, most children and adolescents demonstrate that they do not satisfy these PA standards, with specific differences between countries (e.g., in Italy, only one child over four engages in sufficient PA). However, no evidence reported that the amount of PA is linearly associated with physical performance, complicating the understanding of a system where factors such as chronological age and relative age effect and biological factors (body mass index and peak height velocity) can crucially affect the children’s and adolescents’ well-being evaluation.
Therefore, multivariable analyses focused on prepubertal children’s and adolescents’ PA and physical performance evaluations can substantially contribute to better understanding which factors (among those proposed above or others) and interventions are crucial for well-being. This Special Issue aims to present new analyses of children’s and adolescents’ performance and PA monitoring, highlighting potential benefits for their health. Papers regarding new PA interventions and fitness/performance measurements will be highly appreciated.
Dr. Corrado Lupo
Dr. Alexandru Nicolae Ungureanu
Dr. Paolo Riccardo Brustio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prepubertal children
- adolescents
- physical activity
- performance
- physical activity measurements
- performance testing
- well-being
- sedentary
- maturation
- relative age effect
- amount of sport practice
- peak height velocity
- school physical practice
- structured PA
- unstructured PA
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