Physical Activity for Optimal Health

Dear Colleagues,

You are welcome to contribute to this Special Issue regarding “Physical Activity for Optimal Health” by submitting in your working order to increase your knowledge and research experience on physical activity and health to compile the most recent studies and projects carried out concerning the use of physical exercise and sport as a means to improve health, social inclusion, and sports performance.

Regular exercise is essential to maintain physical and mental health; physical activity reduces weight and excess weight. Access to optimal health is one of these essential rights for persons with disabilities. In this sense, physical exercise is crucial to improving and maintaining one’s health and well-being.

Sports and physical activity have a notable value in the context of social inclusion and integration, in addition to the multiple and varied benefits they bring to people’s health and well-being. They can promote active social inclusion by allowing special groups to fully interact and relate to other social groups. Physical exercise, through physical education and sport, provides the opportunity to value capabilities and can include everyone in an inclusive vision. This is particularly valuable for people with and without disabilities across all age groups.

This Special Issue of the Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology presents articles related to the different fields of action of Sports Sciences, such as the use of accelerometry to quantify health parameters, recommendations and guidelines on physical activity, development of comprehensive intervention models for reducing overweight and obesity, use of physical activity monitoring systems, or knowledge related to adherence to physical activity programs for people with or without disabilities.

Dr. José M. Gamonales
Dr. Mário André da Cunha Espada
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• disabilities
• education
• health
• inclusion
• performance
• physical activity
• sport