Relationship between objective measures of physical activity and weather: a longitudinal study
Open Access
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
- Vol. 3 (1) , 21
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-3-21
Abstract
The weather may be a barrier to physical activity but objective assessment of this hypothesis is lacking. Therefore we evaluated the effect of temperature, rain or snow, and wind speed on the daily physical activity of adults.Keywords
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