How Much Exercise Does Your State Get?

How active is your state? See where you stack up with the rest of the country then see what you can do to make your community and state more active.

• Alabama: 47.5
• Alaska: 60.1
• Arizona: 53.3
• Arkansas: 52.5
• California: 55.1
• Colorado: 59.8
• Connecticut: 54.2
• Delaware: 46.5
• Florida: 53.5
• Georgia: 51.4
• Hawaii: 62.2
• Idaho: 57.7
• Illinois: 51.2
• Indiana: 49.4
• Iowa: 53.1
• Kansas: 52.3
• Kentucky: 50.5
• Louisiana: 50.5
• Maine: 55.3
• Maryland: 50.1
• Massachusetts: 52.9
• Michigan: 50.9
• Minnesota: 55.7
• Mississippi: 50.1
• Missouri: 51.7
• Montana: 60.1
• Nation: 51.6
• Nebraska: 56.3
• Nevada: 54.5
• New Hampshire: 53.9
• New Jersey: 47.7
• New Mexico: 57.4
• New York: 49.3
• North Carolina: 51.7
• North Dakota: 56.0
• Ohio: 49.3
• Oklahoma: 50.7
• Oregon: 58.0
• Pennsylvania: 50.4
• Rhode Island: 48.2
• South Carolina: 49.7
• South Dakota: 51.8
• Tennessee: 49.2
• Texas: 52.2
• Utah: 53.9
• Vermont: 65.3
• Virginia: 52.0
• Washington: 55.7
• West Virginia: 47.1
• Wisconsin: 53.9
• Wyoming: 54.2
  
  

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High intensity exercises reduce CVD risk factors better than aerobic activities in adolescent youth (study)

Image by Jett Loe via Flickr
Some questions for you:

• Do you provide activities that are of high intensity or do we primarily focus on moderate levels of activity?
• How might you take advantage of this new study and create more high intensity activities?
• How will you deal with the fact that children do not have high cardiovascular fitness levels and then you're asking them to work extra hard? 
• Do you know how the body (especially youth) responds to movement and the bioenergetics involved in exercise?  
• Have you taken EXS 387, EXS 397 prior to student teaching?  
• Do you think it's important to have this knowledge and skill set in human movement to be a great and transformative educator?

This article examines the effects of brief, intense exercise in comparison with traditional endurance exercise on both novel and traditional markers of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in youth.


The effects of time and intensity of exercise on novel and established markers of CVD in adolescent youth - Buchan - 2011 - American Journal of Human Biology


DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.21166


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