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Rosenstiel, Stephanie; Volk, Carmen; Schmid, Julia; Wagner, Wolfgang; Demetriou, Yolanda; Höner, Oliver; Thiel, Ansgar; Trautwein, Ulrich; Sudeck, Gorden – European Physical Education Review, 2022
A central goal of physical education (PE) is to empower students to be physically active in a health-enhancing way. Therefore, using a competence-based approach, the objective of the health- and fitness-related PE intervention 'Promotion of physical activity-related health competence in PE' (GEKOS) was to address practical and theoretical content…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Related Fitness, Physical Activities, Physical Education
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Bauer, Pascal; Kraushaar, Lutz; Most, Astrid; Hölscher, Sophie; Tajmiri- Gondai, Shahin; Dörr, Oliver; Troidl, Christian; Bauer, Timm; Nef, Holger; Hamm, Christian W.; Keller, Till – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2019
Purpose: To evaluate vascular function and its relationship to cardiorespiratory fitness in professional handball athletes. Method: We examined 30 male professional handball athletes (age 27 [plus or minus] 4 y) and 10 male sedentary controls (age 26[plus or minus] 5 y) at rest. The workup included exercise testing via ergometry. To assess…
Descriptors: Exercise Physiology, Athletics, Team Sports, Athletes
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Merrem, Anne M.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – European Physical Education Review, 2019
Studies of prospective physical education teachers' (PPETs') acculturation have been useful in terms of facilitating the development of effective physical education teacher education (PETE) programmes because they provide teacher education faculty with a description of incoming recruits' values and beliefs and an understanding of how these values…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Suchert, Vivien; Hanewinkel, Reiner; Isensee, Barbara – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: To examine associations of cardiorespiratory fitness, physical activity (PA) and weight status with academic achievement 1 year later. In addition, the mediating role of psychological variables was tested. Methods: Longitudinal analyses included 1011 German students (M = 14.1 years, SD = 0.6 years). Cardiorespiratory fitness was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies