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Effects of age, sex, cohort/covid, and body constitution on physical fitness of third-grade primary school children from Federal State of Thuringia, Germany. Physical fitness is measured with indicators of cardio-respiratory endurance, coordination under time pressure, speed, power-low, power-up, and balance from 2017 to 2023.
Background
In a recent study, we examined Covid-19 pandemic effects on the physical fitness of German third-graders tested between 2016 and 2022. The present report includes new data from 2023 to examine whether there were post-pandemic rebounds in the negatively affected fitness components, and whether pandemic and potential rebound effects differ...
Physical fitness (PF) is closely related to body constitution, with either height-to-mass ratio (HMR) or body mass index (BMI) as indicators. We compared these indicators for 24,777 third-grade children from 2017-2022 cohorts in cardiorespiratory endurance (6-min run), coordination (star-run), speed (20-m sprint), lower-(standing long jump) and upp...
Background. In spring of 2020, the Sars-CoV-2 incidence rate increased rapidly in Germany and around the world. Throughout the next 2 years, schools were temporarily closed and social distancing measures were put in place
to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Did these social restrictions and temporary school lockdowns affect chil- dren’s physi...
Background
In spring of 2020, the Sars-CoV-2 incidence rate increased rapidly in Germany and around the world. Throughout the next 2 years, schools were temporarily closed and social distancing measures were put in place to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Did these social restrictions and temporary school lockdowns affect children’s physical...
Background: In spring 2020, the Sars-CoV-2 incidence rate increased rapidly in Germany and around the world. Throughout the next two years, schools were temporarily closed and social distancing measures were put in place to slow the spread of Covid-19. Did these restrictions affect children’s physical fitness? The EMOTIKON project annually tests th...
Action observation (AO) allows access to a network that processes visuomotor and sensorimotor inputs and is believed to be involved in observational learning of motor skills. We conducted three consecutive experiments to examine the boosting effect of AO on the motor outcome of the untrained hand by either mirror visual feedback (MVF), video therap...
