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Table 5 Family sports plan for treating childhood obesity

From: Family sports interventions for the treatment of obesity in childhood: a meta-analysis

Items and prescriptions

Aerobic exercise

Resistance movement

Physical activity

Stretching

Mixed motion

Exercise mode

Skateboard, racket, dance, basketball, football, volleyball, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, skipping, cycling, walking, hiking, skipping, climbing, running, kicking, and stair climbing

Rope climbing, tree climbing, rock climbing, push-ups, weightlifting, and boating

Children go to school on foot, play at rest, go hiking, walk with dogs, clean houses, park in farther places, use stairs instead of elevators or escalators

Yoga, dance, gymnastics

Competitive games, recreational skills learning (judo), dual tasks and mini sports games

Progressive load

Medium to high strength

High strength (50–70% MVC)

Low to medium strength

Medium to low intensity

Moderate to severe intensity

Motion frequency

> 3 times a week

2–3 times a week

Everyday

> 5 times a week

2 times a week

Exercise intensity

Medium and high strength

Medium and high strength

Medium and low strength

Low intensity

Moderate to severe intensity, the intensity is 65–75% of the maximum heart rate (HR)

Duration

20–90 min

2–3 min (8–20 times in each group, total times > 30)

> 20 min

10 min

60 min

Other

Wear a pedometer (measuring steps and stepping time)

Exercise major muscle groups

Not feel excessive fatigue, so as to avoid excessive

No clear exercise prescription

Portable HR detector

  1. MVC, maximum voluntary contraction. The content of the family training schedule comes from the literature that meets the standards and the literature that adopts family sports/exercise intervention to treat and prevent childhood obesity