Published as: Erfle, Stephen E., and Abigail Gamble. "Effects of Daily Physical Education on Physical Fitness and Weight Status in Middle School Adolescents." Journal of School Health 85, no. 1 (2015): 27-35. This author...
Since muscle is more dense than fat, athletes tend to have greater mass and BMI than similarly sized non-athletes. Comparing direct adiposity measures and BMI confirms that BMI is a biased proxy for adiposity for elite...
**Background**: (Erfle & Gelbaugh, 2013) and (Erfle, 2014) examined a regular irregularity in physical activity performance histograms for curl-ups and push-ups from a sample of more than 9,000 middle-school students. These...
This article examines the proclivity and performance attributes of focal students across time and activities using data from 9,345 students. Three systematic focal behavior partitions are examined: Across activities, across...
Published as: Erfle, Stephen E. and Corey M. Gelbaugh. "Physical Activity Performance of Focal Middle School Students." Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science 17 (2013): 150-66. This is an Accepted Manuscript...
Histograms of push-up and curl-up performances of middle school students show that students stop at multiples of five more often than random processes suggest. The natural question arises: do students who stop at these focal...