Get Up And Do Something: Fitness tied to academic achievement in new middle school study

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Fitness tied to academic achievement in new middle school study Dec 13th 2012, 11:33 Middle school students who are more physically fit make better grades and outperform their classmates on standardized tests, according to a newly published study from a professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The study is among the first to examine how academic achievement relates to all aspects of physical fitness including endurance, muscular strength, flexibility and body fat. It appears in this month's issue of the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. "Not only does improving fitness have physical health implications for the child, it also has implications for their academic achievement," said Dawn Coe, assistant professor in the UT Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies, and the lead researcher on the study.

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