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Mattson, Michelle; Hollifield,, Christi; Egan, Cate A. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2022
Youth in the United States are not getting the recommended daily 60 minutes of physical activity (PA), and childhood obesity is on the rise. Adequate PA is linked with numerous health benefits such as increased cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness and bone strength. Biking is a great opportunity for children of all ages to increase their PA and…
Descriptors: Youth, Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities, Grants
Grimes, Amanda; Baker, Michele – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Introduction: Despite the known health benefits of biking, within the last year, 46% of college students reported not riding a bike. This trend indicates a need to explore interventions to increase bicycling. The purpose of this study was to examine how a free membership to a citywide bike share system, with a campus docking station, affected…
Descriptors: College Students, Health Behavior, Transportation, Physical Activities
Malterud, Lotte; Engelsrud, Gunn; Vereide, Vegard – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
This article is based on a selection of Norwegian girls' accounts of backcountry, freeride skiing and mountain biking to better understand how they form and are formed by cultural identity standards. The study is conducted by using the precepts of discourse analysis, which have language and social communication as the central component of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Self Concept, Athletics
Yuchun Chen; Allie Mccreary; Tammie Stenger-Ramsey – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2024
Compared to their public-school peers, homeschool students are less physically active, perform worse in health-related physical fitness tests, and have poorer body composition status (Kabiri et al., 2017; Kabiri et al., 2020; Long et al., 2010; Tribby & Berrigan, 2021). The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of an outdoor…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Outdoor Education, Physical Activity Level, Physical Fitness
Estevan, Isaac; Queralt, Ana; Molina-García, Javier – Journal of School Health, 2018
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to: (1) describe modes of transport to school, with a specific focus on the use of public bicycle share programs (PBSP); and (2) assess sociodemographic, psychosocial, and environmental correlates of bike and PBSP use to go to school. METHODS: A group of 465 adolescents from the International Physical…
Descriptors: Transportation, Correlation, Adolescents, Physical Activities
Zwart, Ryan; Hines, Ryan – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2022
In recent decades, researchers and land managers have seen steadily increasing numbers of outdoor adventure recreation (OAR) participation. Social and community support have long been topics in outdoor recreation literature. The following study aimed to further explain to what extent social and community support and well-being occur because of OAR…
Descriptors: Wellness, Social Support Groups, Motivation, Adventure Education
Hoppenfeld, Jared; Graves, Stephanie J.; Sewell, Robin R.; Halling, T. Derek – Public Services Quarterly, 2019
Sedentary behavior has increased over the last several decades, and this has led to major life-threatening health issues. Texas A&M University Libraries has introduced an innovative idea in three of their buildings. This case study highlights the implementation of Bike Desks at an academic library while offering strategies for other libraries…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Academic Libraries, Furniture
Gustat, Jeanette; Richards, Katherine; Rice, Janet; Andersen, Lori; Parker-Karst, Kathryn; Cole, Shalanda – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: The prevalence of obesity in children is high, and many do not meet physical activity recommendations. The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program encourages school-aged children to walk and bike to school. We assessed the condition of the walking/biking environment around schools in Louisiana prior to the state's first SRTS program.…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Obesity
Ross, Allison; Kurka, Jonathan M. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Active transportation to school (ATS) is a component of a whole school approach to health promotion among youth. Methods: Individual- and school-level predictors of ATS were examined using data from parent surveys (N = 11,100) of students in grades 3-8 attending 112 schools in Arizona (United States) administering Safe Routes to School…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Safety, Proximity, Income
Hirsh, Alon; Levy, Sharona T. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2013
The present research addresses a curious finding: how learning physical principles enhanced athletes' biking performance but not their conceptual understanding. The study involves a model-based triathlon training program, Biking with Particles, concerning aerodynamics of biking in groups (drafting). A conceptual framework highlights several…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Adolescents, Athletes, Physics
Hill, Eddie; Wygant, Ben; Smith, Brian; Gómez, Edwin – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2017
Mountain biking is currently one of the fastest growing recreational activities in the world (Outdoor Foundation, 2013), but documenting the benefits has been challenging. The Benefits of Hiking Scale (BHS), a 38-item instrument assessing the values and benefits of using trails, has been used in national and state park trail research (Freidt,…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Recreational Activities, Recreational Facilities, Recreation
Spurrier, Alex; O'Keefe, Bonnie – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
This brief aims to help state and local leaders, advocates, and other stakeholders better understand how they can lead comprehensive change to improve the safety of all modes of student transportation in their communities. The brief starts by assessing how students get to school and how modes of transportation have changed over the past 50 years.…
Descriptors: School Buses, Student Transportation, Physical Activities, Motor Vehicles
Shields, Margaret M.; Thomas, Katherine H.; Paschal, Angelia; Tucker, Melanie; Leeper, James; Usdan, Stuart – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2017
Biking is a popular recreational activity, and understanding how to promote participation is important to college health and recreation professionals. The purpose of this study was to examine factors contributing to cycling behaviors on one large college campus from an ecological perspective. Students were surveyed at a southeastern university in…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Predictor Variables, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
Burgoyne-Allen, Phillip; O'Keefe, Bonnie – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
Diesel buses and personal vehicle trips for school transportation emit millions of tons of greenhouse gases per year into the environment, which contribute to global warming, and expose children to harmful pollutants that can affect their health and academic performance. What would it take for the yellow school bus--and school transportation…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Conservation (Environment), School Buses, Financial Support
Makri, Andrea; Koulenti, Aphroditi; Argyrou, Kyriaki; Gordon, Wayne; Constantinidou, Fofi – Topics in Language Disorders, 2019
Purpose: This study is part of the first systematic program in the Republic of Cyprus examining the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children, teenagers, and university students. The study incorporated the Greek Version of the Brain Injury Screening Questionnaire (BISQ-G) as the primary tool to identify students with TBI. Methods: The…
Descriptors: Risk, Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Persistence