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Activities; Exercise; Games; Motor Development; Movement Education; Music Activities; Physical Activities; Physical Development; Psychomotor Skills; Running; Young Children

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Highlights the importance of activities to build gross motor skills and provides hints for encouraging such activities. Specific areas of activities presented are: (1) running and jumping; (2) music games; (3) action games; (4) races; (5) bed sheets or parachutes; (6) hula hoops; (7) balls; (8) batting; (9) balance; and (10) creative movement. (SD)

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Exercise Physiology; Muscular Strength; Physical Fitness; Plyometrics; Running

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Investigated whether a 6-week regimen of plyometric training would improve running economy. Data were collected on 18 regular but not highly trained distance runners who participated in either regular running training or plyometric training. Results indicated that 6 weeks of plyometric training improved running economy at selected speeds in this group of runners. The mechanism must still be determined. (SM) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Athletes; Rehabilitation; Running; Sports Medicine

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Plantar fasciitis is an extremely common, painful injury seen among people in running and jumping sports. While prognosis for recovery with conservative care is excellent, prolonged duration of symptoms affects sports participation. Studies on treatment options show mixed results, so finding effective treatments can be challenging. A logical treatment approach emphasizing biomechanics, rehabilitation, and training adaptation will help expedite return to sport. (SM) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Age Differences; Infants; Motion; Perceptual Development; Running; Visual Perception; Walking

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Two experiments tested infants' sensitivity to properties of point-light displays of a walker and a runner that were equivalent regarding the phasing of limb movements. Found that 3-, but not 5-month-olds, discriminated these displays. When the symmetrical phase-patterning of the runner display was perturbed by advancing two of its limbs by 25 percent of the gait cycle, both groups discriminated the walker display from the new phase- shifted runner display. (Author/KB) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Exercise Physiology; Muscular Strength; Musculoskeletal System; Running; Sports Medicine

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Investigated recovery of maximal force and power following a 10-km race. Data collected on 10 healthy male distance runners pre-race, immediately post-race, and 48 hours later indicated that strength and power capabilities of these 10-km runners were for the most part restored 48 hours after the race. Only the hamstring muscle group was not fully recovered. (SM)

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Cardiovascular System; College Students; Exercise Physiology; Heart Rate; Higher Education; Running; Walking

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Developed a cardiorespiratory endurance test that retained the inherent advantages of submaximal testing while eliminating reliance on heart rate measurement in predicting maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max). College students completed three exercise tests. The 1.5-mile endurance test predicted VO2max from submaximal exercise without requiring heart rate measurement or all-out running, also allowing participants to self-select the most appropriate exercise mode. (SM) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Athletes; Athletics; Cardiovascular System; Health Behavior; Heart Disorders; Physical Fitness; Running

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Runner Jim Fixx wrote a book about running and died young of a heart attack while running. Fixx and other authors believed heart disease resulted from overcivilization and recommended running as a way of life and cure, advising readers to listen to their bodies instead of their doctors. Fixx's adherence to that philosophy explains his behavior (running through chest pain). (SM)

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Adolescents; Adults; Aerobics; Children; Deaf Blind; Exercise; Physical Fitness; Running; Swimming; Visual Impairments

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This article discusses the importance of daily physical activity and examples of how individuals who are visually impaired or deaf-blind can access fitness. It describes techniques for running, bicycling, swimming, exercise training in a health club, aerobics, and fitness at home (jumping rope, yoga, and basketball). (Contains references.) (CR)

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Academic Discourse; Athletics; Body Composition; Exercise; Friendship; Higher Education; Human Body; Interpersonal Relationship; Jogging; Lifetime Sports; Physical Activities; Physical Fitness; Physical Health; Recreational Activities; Researchers; Running

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Describes the authors' experiences in jogging together. States that, for them, the act of running became a perceptive starting point or practice for better understanding the world and their place in it. Adds that the running experience also informed the runners' research relationship. (Contains 28 references.) (NB)

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Athletes; Exercise Physiology; Plyometrics; Running

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Investigated the relationship between several field tests of anaerobic power (e.g., +various sprints, vertical jumps, and a plyometric leap) and distance running performance in trained adult male and female runners. Results indicate that anaerobic power is significantly related to distance running performance and may explain a meaningful percentage of variability in 10-km run time. (SM)

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