IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 3980: Guidelines for Physical Activity —A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess Their Application in the General Population. Have We Achieved Our Goal?

IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 3980: Guidelines for Physical Activity—A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess Their Application in the General Population. Have We Achieved Our Goal? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph17113980 Authors: Stefano Palermi Anna Maria Sacco Immacolata Belviso Veronica Romano Pietro Montesano Bruno Corrado Felice Sirico National and international healthcare organizations propose guidelines for physical activity worldwide, defining its characteristics. These guidelines’ practical applications are difficult to estimate, since they are not fully followed. The aim of the present cross-sectional observational study was to assess awareness about guidelines for physical activity and to evaluate their practical applications in a sample of the Italian population. In total, 310 participants completed an online survey (mean age 29.10 ± 4.44), assessing the habits, beliefs and health effects of physical activity. In total, 39.35% of respondents were inactive. In total, 6.91% of active respondents did not perform a warm-up phase at the beginning of each training session and 77.14% did not check their own heart rate during the training session. Approximately half of respondents reported erroneous beliefs about the type, frequency and volume of physical activity, compared to data proposed by the guidelines. The preventive effect of physical activity was clearly perceived for card...
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