Antonio Rivero Herraiz's research while affiliated with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and other places

... Una es la de Juan Caballero (1916) que, si bien consideraba la gimnasia higiénica idónea para la educación escolar, proponía la enseñanza de la instrucción militar, con el fin de preparar a los jóvenes en el momento de su incorporación a filas: "La instrucción militar será sólo la de sin armamento, y, a lo sumo, la de fusil que cupiera hacer con un palo" (Caballero, 1916, p. 65). En Madrid, los esfuerzos institucionales por hacer propaganda en pro de la educación física venían de la Sociedad Gimnástica Española -SGE, 1887-1937- (Rivero, 2019). En 1916 Alfonso XIII presidente honorifico de la SGE le concedió el título de Real (Sevilla, 1951). ...

... Amin et al. (2011) showed that women with higher educational and occupational levels were negative predictors of physical activity, with perceived obstacles being the climate, traditions and lack of facilities and time. Men on the other hand, have a higher practice rate and lower risk of dropout (Hendry et al., 2010), prefer to perform outdoor activities (Martín et al., 2015), and the main cause of dropout is for work reasons (Zurift et al., 1999). ...

... The benefits derived from the self-assessment model are evident concerning the students' responsibility and planning. This is also true with respect to assessment by others, through co-assessment, as a shared task in the classroom, and as an opportunity to develop self-knowledge and awareness of their possibilities, talents, as well as being a critical and constructive [4] approach, one of active and autonomous work [5]. Blending these self and co-assessment modalities, regarding individual and even group efforts and work, perhaps becomes the only way to empower the students in their own learning process (individually and as a group), and to count with their absolute commitment and involvement. ...

... A pesar de los tantos intentos y excelentes trabajos, realizados por múltiples y distintos insignes y connotados especialistas, en el área de la actividad fisicorporal y deportiva, esa cultura que privilegia a la educación intelectual, todavía no ha podido ser llevada a una proporción más o menos equitativa, con respecto a la Educación Física. En este sentido, cabe destacar las magistrales obras de Cagigal (1957Cagigal ( y 1981, Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) en cuanto a el juego y deporte en sus obras (El origen deportivo del Estado; El deporte como metáfora: en semblanza de Rivero, 2011), Cooper (1973, Matveev (1991), Le Boulch (1978), entre otros tan actuales como Platonov (1984Platonov ( y 2004, Parlebas (1981) y Ramírez (2009). ...

... Total daily energy expenditure (TEE) is an important contributor to metabolic health (11). In addition, free living activity related energy expenditure (AEE) is related to reduced weight gain (31,34) while exercise training reduces weight regain following weight loss (12). ...

... Sport was considered a symbol of European modernity in contrast to the dominant physical culture of Spain, a culture linked to casticismo [authentic traditional customs], 3 and whose most obvious example was bullfighting, considered at that time to be a 'national fiesta' . 4 We are informed by way of castizo [authentic traditional] practices -originating in certain literary, cultural and ideological attitudes -that since the eighteenth century, traditional Spanish customs directly contrasted enlightened or 'Gallicized' stances. Between the end of the nineteenth and the first third of the twentieth century, we could cite as examples of such customs: bullfighting festivals, flamenco, zarzuela [a type of operetta], sainete [a type of comic sketch] and so on; all of which held great prestige in popular urban culture. ...

... Sport participation has potential in this regard, in its freedom from the hegemonies of everyday life, allowing for transformation and a more authentic self-actualisation. In this respect, speaking in reference to the biopower frame but in the context of women's empowerment, Sánchez-García and Rivero-Herraiz (2013) argue that sport allows for the formation of a 'special kind of technologies of the self' that allow for freedom and resistance to germinate. ...

... Uno de los primeros resultados obtenidos en el estudio obedece a la poca oferta de actividades físicas adaptadas a las particularidades y posibilidades de las personas adultas mayores en estos establecimientos, así como las condiciones precarias para la inclusión social. Esto constituiría una pérdida de visión de los emprendimientos deportivos, pues en los últimos años, este segmento constituye uno de los de mayor crecimiento e importancia, sobre todo en América Latina (Martínez del Castillo, Jiménez-Beatty, Santacruz, Martín & Rivero, 2011;Acosta, 2012). Por otra parte, los hombres son los que más asisten a estos establecimientos algo que se contradice con estudios previos que demuestran que el sexo femenino es más propenso a tener una actividad deportiva más diversa (Alvariñas-Villaverde, López-Villar, Fernández-Villarino, & Alvarez-Esteban, 2017). ...

... and modernising energy in a demoralised nation embroiled in defeatism after the loss of the last colonial territories. 12 Spanish sporting pioneers, mostly bred among the professional middle classes and the bourgeoisie, practiced all kind of self-defence sports in their private gyms and associations since the late nineteenth century, but in the first decades of the twentieth century there was no professional fighting whatsoever. They were addicted to the British amateur ethos, but the Spanish context was very different. ...

... 16 The proportion of patients reporting that they had received PA advice ranged from 7.7% (of females, 9.4% of males) to 76% (median 35%), 40,63 with 13 studies reporting that <40% of patients recalled receiving PA advi ce. 16,31,38,40,41,47,48,51,53,54,60,64,67 Reviewing audiotaped discussions highlighted that 21% of patients could not accurately recall PA discussions that occurred. 24 Factors associated with the delivery or receipt of PA BI Patient factors. ...