In early 2020, the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spread throughout the world, causing a pandemic that dramatically affected our everyday activities. To contain the transmission rate, governments implemented numerous preventive measures, including social distancing and the wearing of face masks. Recent
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Impact of Face Masks on Exercise Capacity and Lactate Thresholds in Healthy Young Adults
Wolf-Stephan Rudi, Florian Maier, Dominik Schüttler, Antonia Kellnar, Anna Katharina Strüven, Wolfgang Hamm, and Stefan Brunner
#HealthyKidsQuarantined: Supporting Schools and Families With Virtual Physical Activity, Physical Education, and Nutrition Education During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Laurel Whalen, Jeanne Barcelona, Erin Centeio, and Nathan McCaughtry
On March 12, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had become a global pandemic ( WHO, 2020 ). As cases of COVID-19 began to rapidly spread throughout the United States, many state governments across the country determined that “Stay
WhatsApp-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder During the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Feasibility Trial
Oğuz K. Esentürk and Erkan Yarımkaya
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, which is rapidly spreading worldwide, has caused great concern in many countries around the world. According to Johns Hopkins University & Medicine as of May 4, 2020, COVID-19 had caused 251,718 deaths and 3,596,146 cases worldwide ( Johns Hopkins
Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown and a Subsequent Retraining Period on Elite Athletes’ Workload, Performance, and Autonomic Responses: A Case Series
Pedro L. Valenzuela, Fernando Rivas, and Guillermo Sánchez-Martínez
Purpose: To describe the effects of COVID-19 lockdown and a subsequent retraining on the training workloads, autonomic responses, and performance of a group of elite athletes. Methods: The training workloads and heart rate variability (assessed through the log-transformed root mean square of successive R–R intervals) of 7 elite badminton players were registered daily during 4 weeks of normal training (baseline), 7 to 10 weeks of lockdown, and 6 to 8 weeks of retraining. Physical performance was assessed at baseline and after each phase by means of a countermovement jump and the estimated squat 1-repetition maximum. Results: A reduction in training workloads was observed in all participants during the lockdown (−63.7%), which was accompanied by a reduced heart rate variability in all but one participant (−2.0%). A significant reduction was also observed for countermovement jump (−6.5%) and 1-repetition maximum performance (−11.5%), which decreased in all but one participant after the lockdown. However, after the retraining phase, all measures returned to similar values to those found at baseline. At the individual level, there were divergent responses, as exemplified by one athlete who attenuated the reduction in training workloads and increased her performance during the lockdown and another one who markedly reduced his workload and performance, and got injured during the retraining phase. Conclusions: Although there seems to be a large interindividual variability, COVID-19 lockdown is likely to impose negative consequences on elite athletes, but these detrimental effects might be avoided by attenuating reductions in training workloads and seem to be overall recovered after 6 to 8 weeks of retraining.
Adaptation to Change: A Case Study of a Sailor Who Experienced Multiple Career-Change Events and Became a World Champion
Roy David Samuel
.g., the junior-to-senior transition [JST], getting selected to an Olympic team) developing over a planned pathway with dominant Type 2 processing, while others (e.g., injuries, the coronavirus pandemic) are unexpected , developing over an unplanned pathway with a shift from Type 1 to Type 2 processing. The
Physical Education Teachers’ Experiences With Remote Instruction During the Initial Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Kevin Mercier, Erin Centeio, Alex Garn, Heather Erwin, Risto Marttinen, and John Foley
teachers and schools throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, collecting data for content development purposes, and sharing the data for this study. References An , R. ( 2020 ). Projecting the impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic on childhood obesity in the United States: A microsimulation model
The Effects of COVID-19 School Closures on Physical Fitness in Adolescents
Alex M. Wolfe, Maria A. Pessman, Kelly R. Laurson, Dale D. Brown, and Ryan A. Brown
March 11, 2020, marked the declaration of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization ( World Health Organization, n.d. ). To reduce the risk of social contact and interrupt the transmission of disease, institutions where humans interacted closely
The Relationship and Effect Among Physical Literacy Attributes in University Physical Education During the Pandemic Quarantine Period
Siu Ming Choi, Raymond Kim Wai Sum, Elean Fung Lin Leung, and Cindy Sit
collaborative and self-organizing pedagogy, the development of physical competence should be placed first ( Durden-Myers et al., 2018 ; Rovegno & Dolly, 2006 ). Considering the new normal after the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, however, the challenges of stimulating physical competence through online physical
The Success and Struggles of Physical Education Teachers While Teaching Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Erin Centeio, Kevin Mercier, Alex Garn, Heather Erwin, Risto Marttinen, and John Foley
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Predicting Changes in Physical Education Teachers’ Behaviors Promoting Physical Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using an Integrated Motivational Model
Silvio Maltagliati, Attilio Carraro, Géraldine Escriva-Boulley, Maurizio Bertollo, Damien Tessier, Alessandra Colangelo, Athanasios Papaioannou, Selenia di Fronso, Boris Cheval, Erica Gobbi, and Philippe Sarrazin
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