Benefits Examples of work that is being undertaken across London schools includes: welcoming dining room environment; increased uptake in healthy school meals; improved cooking skills; road safety and bike sheds;
increased walking and cycling to school; more school sport clubs and physical activities; and increased participation in physical activity.
Not exact matches
The team also assessed scenarios in the transportation
and electricity generation sectors, including
increased cycling and walking in London
and Delhi, India.
Most notably, muscle activation per gait
cycle increased with training
and became more similar to able - bodied
walking.
«The exercise program includes weight training for
increased muscle mass
and bone strength, as well as aerobic activity such as
walking,
cycling or swimming to burn calories
and increase health
and fitness.»
Although positive results were observed in individuals doing only aerobic exercises like
cycling, rowing
and treadmill
walking, adding resistance exercises like lifting weights resulted in greater muscle mass
and strength
increases in comparison to aerobic exercise alone (9 % in comparison to 5 %)
and (49 % in comparison to 17 %) respectively.
The benefits of low level aerobic work (
walking, hiking,
cycling, swimming): —
increases capillary network (blood vessels that supply the muscle cells with fuel
and oxygen)--
increases muscle mitochondria —
increases production of fat - burning
and fat - transporting enzymes — more fun, because you can talk with a partner while doing it
The simple act of
walking or
cycling to
and from school can
increase a child's health
and fitness levels by a significant amount.
The proportion of children
walking and cycling to school has been declining since 1995, with the number being driven to primary school
increasing each year — as many as one in four cars on the road during the morning peak are on the school run.
This curve is statistically speaking a «random
walk», with no robust statistical correlation with atmospheric CO2, which has seen no
cycles but has
increased at a fairly constant CAGR of around 0.4 % per year since measurements started at Mauna Loa in 1958
and at an estimated somewhat slower rate before this, based on ice core data.