Thank you to Dr. Eun-Young Lee (Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, AHKGA JEDI Committee member, and South Korea's Report Card leader), An-Chi Shih (Physiotherapy Student at McMaster University), and Dr. Mark Tremblay (Senior Scientist at the CHEO Research Institute and AHKGA President) for providing this...
Thank you to Professor Jarek Mäestu (University of Tartu, Estonia) for providing this post. In this post, Jarek describes their project, which aimed to support Physical Education (PE) teachers to get kids moving and enjoying physical activity. More about the author can be found at...
The absence of physical fitness monitoring, as demonstrated by successive Active Healthy Kids Report Cards (https://www.activehealthykids.org/scotland/), has led to the funding of a new Knowledge Exchange project https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/OpenCall202122/FitBackScotland.aspx. The project aims to set up a system of physical fitness monitoring in Scottish schools, based on the...
Thank you to Dr. Brooklyn Fraser (University of Tasmania) for providing this post. In her post, Brooklyn describes her paper titled “Health‑Related Criterion‑Referenced Cut‑Points for Musculoskeletal Fitness Among Youth: A Systematic Review" that was recently published in Sports Medicine. More about the author can be...
AHKGA leaders, Dr. John Reilly (Scotland) and Dr. Mark Tremblay (Canada), wrote an article titled “As schools reopen, will this be the least fit generation of schoolchildren ever?” that was just published in The Conversation. Congratulations! The authors use the Global Matrix 3.0 findings to highlight...
In a recently published study, Smouter and colleagues examined the associations between maximal oxygen uptake and body fat percentage among 979 adolescents (57% females) aged between 10 and 19 years from the city of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The authors also established the best VO2max cut-off...
Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is widely recognized as a key marker of cardiovascular health, which makes the monitoring of temporal trends a particularly interesting and relevant topic in population health. In light of this and using the same methodological approach used in previous studies of temporal...
Tomkinson and colleagues recently published an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in response to a previous editorial by Armstrong and Welsman, who criticized the use of field-based tests, such as the 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT), as a measure of cardiorespiratory...
A study aiming to determine the 30-year secular changes in jumping performance and to assess whether these secular changes remained independent of changes in body mass was recently published in the Journal of Sport Sciences. This study quantified the 30-year secular changes in jumping performance of...
Dr. Grant Tomkinson is lead author on a paper, "European normative values for physical fitness in children and adolescents aged 9-17 years: results from 2 779 165 Eurofit performances representing 30 countries," that was recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Citation details and a summary of...
This article by Australian report card leader Dr. Grant Tomkinson was originally published on The Conversation website and is republished here under Creative Commons License. While the U.S. brings home more Olympic gold than any other country, many, if not most, American school kids wouldn’t even...