What’s your physical activity grade?

In this episode, we'll review what the general physical activity recommendations are in the pediatric and adolescent athlete, we'll review how we are doing as a nation in terms of meeting these recommendations, and we'll start building a foundation on how to improve our physical activity grade.

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-Huang TTK, Borowski LA, Liu B, et al. Pediatricians’ and family physicians’ weight-related care of children in the U.S. Am J Prev Med. 2011;41(1):24-32. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2011.03.016

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- Veitch J, Bagley S, Ball K, Salmon J. Where do children usually play? A qualitative study of parents’ perceptions of influences on children's active free-play. Health Place. 2006;12(4):383-393.

- https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-10/National_Youth_Sports_Strategy.pdf - https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Physical_Activity_Guidelines_2nd_edition.pdf

- https://paamovewithus.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-US-Report-Card-on-Physical-Activity-for-Children-and-Youth.pdf