The ancient Greeks - and other ancients - knew well of the benefits of physical activities.
Participants filled out questionnaires about the types and frequency of leisure and physical activities they participated in.
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It is also imperative that PE teachers learn to teach non-competitive forms of recreation and physical activities.
Users keep a journal on the company's website to more closely track up to 800 physical activities.
For instance, a user could match their weight (tracked on Withings) with their physical activities (tracked on RunKeeper).
At each visit volunteers will be monitored as they undertake a series of physical activities such as light stepping exercise.
The fitness app functions as a social networking site with a videogame-style interface that lets users "level up" based on their physical activities.
The disease permanently curved Riley's spine and limited his physical activities.
Simply adding moderate physical activities to your daily routine will help.
School sports and bike riding are among their physical activities.
He went on to say playing competitive sport for a school was "intrinsically exclusive" and it was "perfectly sensible to have lots of other physical activities for children who loathed PE".
If Home is successful, it is conceivable that Facebook, even more than the other companies, will be able to extensively map your social activities to your communications, web browsing, app use and physical activities.
He was one of a couple of dozen young islanders to take part in the Haka Pei, many of whom had already competed in other gruelling physical activities before striding up Maunga Pu, the volcano used every year for the Tapati toboggan run.
While it's widely accepted that people should avoid strenuous physical and mental activities after a concussion, it's less clear whether flying should be avoided soon afterwards.
It would gain a vital equity stake in European upstream, mid-stream and down-stream plays, which by implication, includes trading activities given physical volumes ultimately impact virtual trades.
Activities include a physical boot camp and lessons on business pitching and a number of paid apprenticeships and work placements are offered at the end of the course.
GPs in Norfolk and Suffolk can refer patients with mental and physical health problems to take part in activities at a so-called care farm.
Over seven years, researchers looked at how often they participated in 13 common leisure activities which were classed as intellectual, physical or social.
Many products and services are created along supply chains that travel from idea conception to final consumption and that include value-added activities of varying degrees of labor-, physical capital-, and intellectual capital-intensity.
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Add to this mix the change in the world of work, where, instead of a 40 hour work week in the USA and a more rational 32-35 hour work week in the much of the EU, the dot.com techies are working 60-80 hours a week, with little or no time scheduled for physical recreation or broader social, cultural, or political activities or involvement.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, updated in 2008, says that workers are disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of their major life activities.
Under the law a disability is considered to be a physical or mental impairment which would substantially affect the ability to carry out normal daily activities for at least a year.
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The council hopes to get more children involved in physical activity at a young age, especially as the emphasis in many of the new activities is on fun rather than competitiveness.
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"Most people are free of the mental and physical burdens of work on a Sunday and experience a more stressful change from weekend leisure activities to work activities on Mondays, " said Dr Shuogo Murakami, who led the research.
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The challenges disabled athletes face aren't just physical: Surviving in a war-torn nation makes training as difficult as so many other activities of daily life.
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