Effect of an Active Video Game Intervention Combined With Multicomponent Exercise for Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children With Overweight and Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood overweight and obesity have become major global health problems and are negatively related with the cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) level in school children and adolescents. Exercise, specifically multicomponent training, is effective for CRF improvement, but the main challenge is to ensure adherence to exercise in children with overweight and obesity. Therefore, new ways of exercising that are more attractive and motivational for this population are needed and playing or training with active video games (AVGs) has been proposed as an effective alternative because they require full-body movement and therefore increase energy expenditure.

Objective

The main aim of this study was to investigate the effects of an AVG intervention combined with multicomponen

SUBMITTER: Comeras-Chueca C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9175106 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature