Kids participating in organised sports only seven minutes better off: study

Dr Harriet Koorts

By Dr Harriet Koorts / Prof Jo Salmon
Published August 20, 2019

Teenagers who play organised sport only get seven minutes more physical activity per day, on average, than teenagers who don’t play any sport.

Our research, published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, found organised sport contributes to just 4 per ...

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Harriet is a Research Fellow Implementation Science at Deakin University. Her research focuses on the implementation and scale-up of physical activity and sedentary behaviour interventions at a population level.

By Prof Jo Salmon

Jo is an Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University. Her program of research focuses on the behavioural epidemiology of children’s' and adults’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour.

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