Sentences with phrase «less player participation»
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A new study1 finds that, though participation in youth sports contributes to overall physical activity, less than one fourth of youth soccer, baseball and softball players studied obtained the sixty minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical exercise (MVPA) during sports practices that U.S. guidelines recommend.2
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Given that football is the most popular high school sport — with more than 1 million athletes putting on a team jersey — the reported drop in participation is almost miniscule: less than 26,000 players over five years.