Ricardo Martín Moya

University of Granada | UGR · Department of Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Corporal

The scientific literature shows a beneficial association between active methodologies and cognitive variables in university students. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between active methodologies in Physical Education and attention and concentration in a group of university students A total of forty-four undergraduate...

Active and democratic citizenship promotion has become a critical challenge for higher education, and civic engagement is a fundamental axis not only in education but also in fostering democratic systems. Consequently, teacher educators held a prominent role through their own teaching practices to generate contexts promoting critical thinking, skil...

Changes of direction (COD) are present in every type of sport there is, mainly in team sports where COD performance is particularly important because during game situations athletes frequently change speed and direction of movement as a way to avoid contact with opposing players in order to gain positional advantages that can lead to a goal or scor...

This study was undertaken to understand the reasons related to typology and organization in physical practice taking into account the perceptions of the older adults. Four focus groups were conducted with a total of 39 older adults. The study participants consisted of 30 women and 9 men (mean age of men and women was M = 68 and 67.1, SD = 4.7 years...

1) Background: The main aim of this study was to examine the effect of an intervention of 12 weeks in three groups on anthropometric measurement and heart rate (HR) variables, fitness index, and maximal oxygen consumption (VO 2 max) in older women. (2) Methods: In total, 166 Ser-bian adult women, aged 50 to 69 years old, participated in this study,...

During a specific time of life, aging is a natural and inevitable process which affects the decline of cognitive capacity and psychological disorders. However, a lot of people do not manage a correct quality of life due to physical fitness or psychological variables such as anxiety and depression. The aim of the present study is to analyze the rela...

Background: The Homeostatic Measurement Assessment-Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) is a recognized and validated method which uses the levels of fasting glucose in blood and insulin of patients to evaluate the insulin resistance. Aims: The purpose of the present study was to assess the cut-off values for anthropological variables to identify the (H...

En la actualidad, el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje consiste en un enfoque centrado en el alumnado, donde aumenta la importancia del uso de metodologías activas y participativas que motiven e impliquen al estudiante en su propio aprendizaje, así como del uso de una evaluación formativa que genere una retroalimentación del progreso del alumno/a du...

En la actualidad, no existe duda acerca de los efectos beneficiosos del ejercicio físico sobre el funcionamiento cognitivo (Álvarez-Bueno y cols., 2017; Chang & Etnier, 2019). Principalmente, estos beneficios se vinculan a diferentes funciones de alto nivel tales como la atención, la percepción, la memoria o el control cognitivo (Smith, 2010). Esto...

En la actualidad todo el mundo conoce los efectos beneficiosos del ejercicio físico sobre la calidad de vida y por ende, los efectos que el wellness tiene sobre nuestro día a día. Teniendo en cuenta esto, podemos sugerir que el nivel de wellness tendrá gran influencia en el desempeño de tareas relacionadas con entornos de trabajo y por lo tanto, ta...

Introducción En educación física, podemos considerar que todas las actividades que se realizan requieren de un alto nivel de coordinación para tener éxito. En este sentido, son relevantes los estudios que han encontrado mejoras en velocidad de carrera tras intervenciones coordinativas. Además, existen investigaciones que afirman que el trabajo coo...

Research investigation concerning potential motivators and psychological influences on health and physical exercise participation have increased worldwide in the last two decades. In contrast, few investigations have analysed this phenomenon in older people living in different contexts. Older adults suffer a notable diminution of physical functions...

Service-Learning (SL) has become a teaching methodology that promotes social and personal skills while helping groups in need and at risk of social exclusion. This paper is a systematic review of the literature on SL experiences and research on college subjects in the area of health-care promotion in settings for older adults. After an exhaustive s...

This study (1) analyzes the differences between non-participating and participating older women in terms of clinical characteristics, pain coping strategies, health-related quality of life and physical activity (PA); (2) studies the associations between non-participants and participants, clinical characteristics, pain coping strategies, HRQoL and b...

Higher education requires a pedagogical transformation to guide teaching practice toward true educational competences. Service-Learning (SL) has become a teaching methodology that promotes social and personal skills. This systematic review of the literature reports SL experiences and research of university subjects related to physical education and...

El fútbol es el deporte más popular en el mundo y lo practican tanto hombres, como mujeres y niños con diferentes niveles de experiencia. La práctica del fútbol depende de una multitud de factores como son la técnica, biomecánica, táctica, áreas mentales y demandas fisiológicas. La información ha sido recabada de diversos artículos científicos y re...

El objetivo del estudio es identificar las variaciones motivacionales según la teoría de las metas de logro en 30 estudiantes de Bachillerato (17-18 años), mediante una innovadora intervención denominada "DiverHealth". Se valoraron los resultados del cuestionario Achievement Motivation for Learning in Physical Education, antes y después de la inter...

The aim of the study tries to identify the changes in the motivational dimensions of the goal theory in 30 students of Secondary School, (17-18 years old), through an innovative intervention called “DiverHealth”. We measured the outcomes from the questionnaire Achievement Motivation for Learning in Physical Education, before and after the intervent...

La realidad existente en la actualidad en la sociedad y el contexto escolar requiere de un adecuado desarrollo integral y saludable del ser humano. Uno de los ámbitos con más fuerza para lograr este objetivo es la educación en general y, el área de la Educación Física (EF) en particular. En muchas ocasiones, muchos profesionales del área no saben c...

Elderly women in rural areas have a strong role in household and farming work, and they show food intake and use of leisure time. It is interesting to compare the differences between groups of elderly women of rural villages according to type of consumed food and energy expenditure during physical activity. A total of 117 women aged between 60 and...

Ageing is a natural and inevitable process with degenerative changes in most of the physical, physiological and psychological functions. Furthermore, the ageing process has an impact on the physical of elderly people. Thus, the aim of this study is to provide to readers of information about effects of ageing and changes in physical fitness as one o...

La educación permanente ha cobrado relevancia en las últimas décadas, considerando diversos aspectos psico-sociales y teniendo en cuenta diversas consideraciones a la hora de planificar programas enfocados a diversos sectores poblacionales. Por otro lado, las personas mayores forman un colectivo que, debido a sus características, necesitan de una a...