Group sports improve body composition , cardiorespiratory endurance , and h and grip strength of overweight/obese youth .
Flexibility and neuromotor fitness do not seem to change following group sports
Group sports interventions have been developed to improve health-related physical fitness of overweight/obese youth .
However , its benefits are not systematic ally documented .
This study synthesizes the evidence about the effects of group sports on health-related physical fitness of overweight/obese youth .
Effect of obesity on injury risk in high school football players.
Little is known about the relative injury risk of obese adolescent football players . Two high school varsity teams were followed prospect ively for injuries after measurement of height , weight , and triceps and subscapular skinfolds during the preseason . Certified athletic trainers who were present at all practice s recorded all injuries that required a player to miss at least one practice or game . In all , 98 players were enrolled in the study . Twenty-eight injuries were documented in 24 different players . There were 27 ( 28 % ) players with the sum of skinfolds > or = 95th percentile for age ; eight of them had nine injuries . The overall prevalence of injuries per player per season was 0.28 for players < or = 95th percentile and 0.33 for players above this percentile ( not significant ) . High body mass ( body weight > 90 kg ) was associated with a 2.5 times higher relative risk of injury . While this study did not find evidence for an overall higher injury rate in overly fat high school football players , an alarmingly high incidence of obesity was found in this athletic population
Group sports improve body composition , cardiorespiratory endurance , and h and grip strength of overweight/obese youth .
Flexibility and neuromotor fitness do not seem to change following group sports
Group sports interventions have been developed to improve health-related physical fitness of overweight/obese youth .
However , its benefits are not systematic ally documented .
This study synthesizes the evidence about the effects of group sports on health-related physical fitness of overweight/obese youth .