https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:37459 Resistance Training for Teens (RT for Teens) was evaluated using a cluster randomised controlled trial in 16 secondary schools. Teachers (N = 44; 48% female/52% male; mean ± SD years teaching experience = 10.6 ± 8.0) from 16 secondary schools were assessed at baseline. Intervention group teachers (i.e. from eight schools) delivered a structured school-based physical activity program over 10-weeks. Teacher outcomes included confidence to teach health-related fitness (HRF) activities, perceived barriers to teaching HRF activities, and perceived fitness. Detailed process evaluation data were also collected. Assessments were conducted at baseline and 6-months (post-program), and outcomes were assessed using repeated measures analysis of variance. Results: There was a positive group-by-time effect for the confidence composite score (p = .010, partial eta squared = 0.29), but no effects for the two (contextual, interpersonal) barrier composite scores. Also, there was a significant effect for perceived ‘general fitness’ (p = 0.044, partial eta squared = 0.13), but not for specific fitness subdomains. Teachers were highly satisfied with both the training and the program, believing it was beneficial for students. Resource usage and adherence to the SAAFE (Supportive, Active, Autonomous, Fair, Enjoyable) delivery principles was high. Conclusion: RT for Teens improved teachers’ confidence and perceived fitness. These findings highlight the potential for high-quality teacher training and program delivery to positively influence teacher-level outcomes. This may provide support for the use of teacher professional development to improve HRF-related pedagogy.]]> Wed 31 Aug 2022 08:19:25 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:34382 Wed 19 Jun 2019 15:24:11 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:38246 Wed 18 Aug 2021 15:42:37 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:15776 Wed 11 Apr 2018 16:59:53 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:13782 Wed 11 Apr 2018 16:59:23 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25742 Wed 11 Apr 2018 16:16:27 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:14255 Wed 11 Apr 2018 14:04:41 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23939 TM resistance training programme for improving health-related fitness and resistance training skill competency in adolescents. This assessor-blinded randomised controlled trial was conducted in one secondary school in the Hunter Region, Australia, from July to September 2013. Ninety-six (96) students (age = 15.4 (.5) years, 51.5% female) were randomised into intervention (n = 51) or control (n = 45) conditions for 8-weeks (60 min twice per week). Waist circumference, body mass index (BMI), BMI-Z score (primary outcomes), cardiorespiratory fitness (shuttle run test), muscular fitness (standing jump, push-up, handgrip, curl-up test), flexibility (sit and reach) and resistance training skill competency were measured at baseline and immediate post-intervention. Feasibility measures of recruitment, retention, adherence and satisfaction were assessed. Significant group-by-time intervention effects were found for waist circumference [-3.1 cm, P < 0.001], BMI [-1.38 kg · m^-2, P < 0.001], BMI-Z [-0.5 z-scores, P < 0.001], sit and reach [+3.0 cm, P < 0.001], standing jump [+0.1 m, P = 0.021] and shuttle run [+10.3 laps, P = 0.019]. Retention rate was 82.3%. All programme sessions were delivered and participants' mean satisfaction scores ranged from 4.2 to 4.6 out of 5. The findings demonstrate that CrossFit Teens^TM is a feasible and efficacious programme for improving health-related fitness in adolescents.]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:26:55 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:12920 Wed 11 Apr 2018 12:44:02 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:11857 Wed 11 Apr 2018 12:22:08 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:15188 Wed 11 Apr 2018 11:51:25 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:16769 Wed 11 Apr 2018 09:29:25 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35191 Wed 10 Jul 2019 16:19:16 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30990 Wed 10 Jul 2019 15:13:10 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29638 Wed 04 Sep 2019 10:31:06 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:24815 Wed 04 Sep 2019 10:18:31 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:38160 0.05), and the intervention significantly improved the ASI (all p < 0.05). A more favourable ASI score was associated with improved symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, QOL-mental and of energy and fatigue (all p < 0.05). The intervention effects on symptoms of depression ([AB; 95%CI] -0.31; - 0.60,-0.11), anxiety (- 0.11; - 0.27,-0.01), stress (- 0.37; - 0.65,-0.174), QOL-mental (0.53; 0.22, 1.01) and ratings of energy and fatigue (0.85; 0.33, 1.63) were mediated by ASI. At 6 months the magnitude of association was larger although the overall pattern of results remained similar. Conclusions: Improvements in the overall physical activity and sleep behaviours of adults partially mediated the intervention effects on mental health and quality of life outcomes. This highlights the potential benefit of improving the overall pattern of physical activity and sleep on these outcomes. Trial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry: ACTRN12617000680369; ACTRN12617000376347. Universal Trial number: U1111–1194-2680; U1111–1186-6588. Human Research Ethics Committee Approval: H-2016- 0267; H-2016–0181.]]> Wed 04 Aug 2021 18:44:37 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:47514 Tue 30 May 2023 12:41:06 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:43664 ‐1 load. J Strength Cond Res 35(2): 340–346, 2021—Although measuring movement velocity during resistance exercise is being increasingly used to monitor player readiness for competition in team sports, the validity and reliability of using set target velocities has not been examined. This study examined test-retest reliability of the load-velocity relationship during the back squat to predict loads corresponding to a mean velocity of 1 m·s^‐1 (V_1Load), test-retest reliability of mean concentric velocity at V_1Load, and criterion validity of mean concentric velocity at V_1Load. Twenty-seven resistance-trained male rugby league players completed 2 testing sessions on separate days to establish individualized back squat load-velocity relationship profiles (30, 40, 60, and 80% estimated 1 repetition maximum). Velocity during the back squat was assessed at each load and V1Load derived using individualized linear regression equations. A subset of subjects (n = 18) also performed the back squat at predicted V1Load to examine the test-retest reliability and compare the mean concentric velocity with the predicted target of 1 m·s^‐1. The mean concentric velocity was consistent across all loads during load-velocity relationship testing (p > 0.05, intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] ≥0.75, coefficient of variation [CV] ≤5.7%, effect size [ES] ≤0.27), and for predicting V_1Load(p = 0.11, ICC = 0.95, CV = 3.9%, ES = 0.11). The mean concentric velocity at V_1Loadwas reliable (ICC = 0.77; CV = 2.6%; ES = 0.39) and not significantly different (p = 0.21) to the target velocity, supporting criterion validity. Individualized load-velocity profiles for the back squat can accurately predict V_1Load, and subsequent use of V_1Load to assess back squat velocity is valid and reliable. Using V1Load to assess changes in back squat velocity may have application in measuring changes in strength and power or readiness to train.]]> Tue 27 Sep 2022 15:01:09 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41937 ecofit intervention will be evaluated using a two-arm randomized controlled trial. A total of 240 adults (aged 18-80) will be recruited and randomly allocated to either the ecofit intervention or a 'wait-list' control group. Both groups will have access to the two types of outdoor park exercise equipment, but the intervention group will be given access to the purpose-built ecofit app and a 90-min introductory group training session. To promote social support, participants can enrol in a group of up to four individuals and access the ecofit Facebook group. The ecofit app include workout plans that can be tailored to different locations, difficulty levels and workout-types (i.e., resistance-only or combined resistance and aerobic workouts). Outcome assessments will be conducted at baseline, 3- (primary-end point) and 9-months follow-up. The primary outcomes are upper and lower body muscular fitness. The secondary outcomes include physical activity, body composition, aerobic fitness, body mass index, self-report resistance-based physical activity, and mental health outcomes. The cost-effectiveness of the study will also be evaluated. Discussion: ecofit is an innovative, multi-component physical activity intervention that integrates smartphone technology, social support and the outdoor built environment to promote community-based aerobic and resistance-based physical. The findings will be used to guide future interventions and to support councils to promote community-based physical activity through the use of local outdoor exercise equipment. Trial registration: ACTRN12619000868189.]]> Tue 16 Aug 2022 10:40:22 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46322 Tue 15 Nov 2022 15:57:28 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:37695 Tue 14 May 2024 09:47:57 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:55572 Tue 11 Jun 2024 11:22:53 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:37736 Tue 08 Aug 2023 10:33:20 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:33481 Resistance Training for Teens was evaluated using a cluster RCT in 16 schools located in New South Wales, Australia. Adolescents (N = 508; 14.1 ± 0.5 years; 49.6% female) completed measures of global self-esteem, subjective well-being, and hypothesized mediators (i.e., perceived fitness, resistance training self-efficacy, and autonomous motivation) at baseline (April-June, 2015) and post-intervention (October-December). The school-based physical activity program was delivered by teachers over 10-weeks via Physical Education, co-curricular school sport, or an elective subject known as Physical Activity and Sport Studies, and involved once-weekly fitness sessions and additional lunch-time sessions. Intervention effects and moderator analyses were tested using multi-level linear regression analyses with interaction terms. Multi-level mediation analyses were used to explore potential mediators of changes in well-being outcomes. Results: Intervention effects for self-esteem (ß = 0.05, p =.194) and wellbeing (ß = 0.03, p =.509) were not statistically significant. Moderator analyses showed effects for self-esteem were greater for the overweight/obese subgroup (p =.069 for interaction), and resistance training self-efficacy was a significant mediator of changes in self-esteem (product-of-coefficients [AB] = 0.021, SE = 0.010, 95% CIs = 0.002 to 0.040). No other significant indirect effects were observed. Conclusion: Overall, Resistance Training for Teens did not improve adolescents' self-esteem or subjective well-being. However, our mediation findings lend support to resistance training self-efficacy as a mechanism explaining the positive effect of resistance training on self-esteem.]]> Tue 01 Sep 2020 14:18:41 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:55439 Thu 30 May 2024 15:43:00 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:49658 Thu 25 May 2023 16:15:33 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:48974 Thu 20 Apr 2023 12:08:46 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:33386 Thu 17 Mar 2022 14:39:50 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26153 Thu 17 Mar 2022 14:37:12 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:48087 Thu 16 Mar 2023 10:16:03 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:11862 Thu 12 Apr 2018 14:12:02 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30989 Thu 09 Dec 2021 11:04:40 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28372 Thu 04 Nov 2021 10:39:02 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:9375 Sat 24 Mar 2018 10:45:36 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:11865 Sat 24 Mar 2018 10:33:59 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31182 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:57 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:15483 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:21:26 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:12309 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:11:38 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:17463 5 yr postdiagnosis on physical functioning.Design, setting, and participants. Between 2010 and 2011, 100 long-term PCa survivors from Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group 03.04 Randomised Androgen Deprivation and Radiotherapy previously treated with androgen-deprivation therapy and radiation therapy were randomly assigned to 6 mo of supervised exercise followed by 6 mo of a home-based maintenance programme (n = 50) or printed educational material about physical activity (n = 50) for 12 mo across 13 university-affiliated exercise clinics in Australia and New Zealand. Intervention: Supervised resistance and aerobic exercise or printed educational material about physical activity. Outcome measurements and statistical analysis: The primary end point was a 400-m walk as a measure of cardiovascular fitness. Secondary end points were physical function, patient-reported outcomes, muscle strength, body composition, and biomarkers. Analysis of covariance was used to compare outcomes for groups at 6 and 12 mo adjusted for baseline values. Results and limitations: Participants undergoing supervised exercise showed improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness performance at 6 mo (−19 s [p = 0.029]) and 12 mo (−13 s [p = 0.028]) and better lower-body physical function across the 12-mo period (p < 0.01). Supervised exercise also improved self-reported physical functioning at 6 (p = .006) and 12 mo (p = 0.002), appendicular skeletal muscle at 6 mo (p = 0.019), and objective measures of muscle strength at 6 and 12 mo (p < 0.050). Limitations included the restricted number of participants undertaking body composition assessment, no blinding to group assignment for physical functioning measures, and inclusion of well-functioning individuals. Conclusions: Supervised exercise training in long-term PCa survivors is more effective than physical activity educational material for increasing cardiorespiratory fitness, physical function, muscle strength, and self-reported physical functioning at 6 mo. Importantly, these benefits were maintained in the long term with a home-based programme with follow-up at 12 mo. Clinical trial registry: The effect of an exercise intervention on cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors in prostate cancer patients from the RADAR study, ACTRN: ACTRN12609000729224.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:04:06 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:19909 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:03:46 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:20571 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:02:38 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:17130 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:02:31 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26156 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:35:26 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:45539 2peak), and cardiometabolic risk Z score. Results: The intervention groups presented a significant reduction in the cardiometabolic risk Z score after 12 weeks of the combined exercise program. In relation to the cardiometabolic risk Z score between groups, the HIIT + RT group presented a significant intervention effect when compared with the control group (Cohen d = 0.23; P < .05). Significant intervention effects were found when comparing the MICT + RT and control groups for body fat percentage, high-density lipoprotein, and VO₂peak. Between the HIIT + RT and control groups, significant intervention effects were found for body fat percentage, blood pressure, and VO₂peak. There were not significant differences between the HIIT + RT and MICT + RT groups. Conclusion: Twelve weeks of HIIT + RT and MICT + RT were effective in significantly reducing the cardiometabolic risk in these adolescents.]]> Mon 31 Oct 2022 15:40:59 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46633 Mon 28 Nov 2022 15:37:23 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46627 Mon 28 Nov 2022 13:38:41 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29682 Mon 23 Sep 2019 13:59:11 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:53914 Mon 22 Jan 2024 15:24:45 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46979 Mon 12 Dec 2022 17:08:30 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:45423 Fri 28 Oct 2022 11:41:17 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:49955 Fri 16 Jun 2023 15:20:35 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41744  15 years), and individuals engaging in sufficient levels of aerobic exercise training (AET) engaged in sufficient levels of RET (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The prevalence of Australian’s participating in regular RET programs is low and only a small proportion of participants meet ACSM guidelines for the quantity and quality of RET that is likely to provide health benefits. This has implications for public health policy and the future development and promotion of population-level RET guidelines.]]> Fri 12 Aug 2022 11:21:31 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36556 Fri 05 Jun 2020 18:04:41 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30121 Fri 03 Dec 2021 10:32:25 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:51360 Fri 01 Sep 2023 13:41:32 AEST ]]>