The investigators hypothesized that the addition of 6 minutes of exercise during the school day would increase physical fitness in elementary school students as demonstrated by longer distances run in 2 minutes and a decrease in heart rate at the end of the exercise.

Brief Physical Activity Program to Increase Physical Fitness in Elementary School Children

Childhood Obesity

Intervention group played music for 6 minutes each morning in addition to recess and physical activity classes. Baseline fitness data and after-intervention data were compared.

6 minutes activity

The Effects of a Brief Physical Activity Program on Elementary School Students' Physical Fitness

Subjects run for 2 minutes around cone separated by 75ft. One lap was one 75 foot length completed.

Difference in laps completed from baseline was taken.

Immediate cool-down, after-exercise heart rate was taken.

Difference in heart rate from baseline measurements is reported

Resident Physician

Implementation of 6 minutes of physical activity daily into the school day routine. Children can jog in place, do jumping jacks or dance.

Marshall University

Control School

Oneparticipated in the intervention which consisted on 6 minutes of exercise a day and incentives like pedometers and physical fitness prizes.

The responsibility was given to the principal to implement the program.

Physical Activity and Incentives

Intervention Group

Total

Age, Categorical

Sex: Female, Male

United States

Region of Enrollment

Grade level

75 foot laps completed

After exercise- heart rate

Both groups were located in a rural, eastern state within 75 miles from one another

Non-randomized, controlled design. Majority of subject were caucasian, from Appalachian region.

Rebecca Hayes, M.D.

Change From Baseline to After Intervention in 75 Foot Laps Completed in 2 Minutes

Change From Baseline to After Intervention for After-Exercise Heart Rate

Two schools participated in the intervention which consisted on 6 minutes of exercise a day and incentives like pedometers and physical fitness prizes.

One intervention school implemented the program with responsibility given to the principal (school-wide group) and the other school asked the individual teachers to implement the program daily (classroom based group).

Physical Activity and Incentives

Brief Physical Activity Program to Increase Physical Fitness in Elementary School Children

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Phase

Placebo

Accepting

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