Sentences with phrase «sedentary behavior per»

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The results showed that youth who reported that they did not spend time outdoors after school (17 %) achieved 21 fewer minutes of MVPA daily, with an additional 70 minutes per day of sedentary behavior compared with those who reported spending most of their time outdoors after school (39 %).

Previously, the participants had been asked to rank their leisure - time physical activity on a scale of 1 («regular hard physical training and competitive sports several times per week») to 4 («reading, watching television, or other sedentary behaviors»).

The 2017 guidelines added a recommendation to reduce sedentary behavior and to get up and move around every 30 minutes, and two to three sessions per week of resistance training.

Studies performed in the United States have found that more than half of adolescents participate in moderate levels of physically activity less than 3 days a week [1] and on average engage in sedentary behaviors such as television watching for approximately 5 hours per day [2].