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Magal, Meir; Liette, Nicole C.; Crowley, Shannon K.; Hoffman, Jay R.; Thomas, Kathleen S. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2021
There are limited data pertaining to the effects of sex on sprint interval cycling (SIC) training session performance. Purpose: We investigated sex-based differences on sprint interval cycling (SIC) performance in collegiate soccer players. Methods: Twelve men and twelve women completed two identical lab trials, 7-14 days apart. The first lab…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Training, College Athletics, Team Sports
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Battista, Rebecca A.; West, Stephanie T. – American Journal of Health Education, 2018
Background: In order to promote physical activity among youth, it is critical that communities offer options beyond sports that still provide similar health benefits. Purpose: Given the appeal of technology among today's youth, the purpose of our study was to evaluate geocaching as a technology-based platform for promoting physical activity in…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Youth Opportunities, Technology Uses in Education, High School Students
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Loflin, Jerry W. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI) was introduced in 2002. Since 2002, limited data, especially student physical activity data, have been published pertaining to the ECHSI. The purpose of this study was to examine the aerobic capacities of early college students and compare them to state and national averages. Early college students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physical Activity Level, Health Behavior, Exercise
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Cortright, Ronald N.; Lujan, Heidi L.; Blumberg, Amanda J.; Cox, Julie H.; DiCarlo, Stephen E. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
Our students are naturally curious, with powerful intrinsic motives to understand their world. Accordingly, we, as teachers, must capitalize on this inherently active and curious nature so that learning becomes a lifelong activity where students take initiative for learning, are skilled in learning, and want to learn new things. Achieving this…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Student Attitudes
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Labban, Jeffrey D.; Etnier, Jennifer L. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
In this study, we tested the effect of acute exercise on long-term memory, specifically the timing of exercise relative to the memory challenge. We assessed memory via paragraph recall, in which participants listened to two paragraphs (exposure) and recounted them following a 35-min delay. Participants (n = 48) were randomly assigned to one of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Exercise Physiology, Long Term Memory, Sport Psychology