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In Arab countries, physical inactivity among adults varies from 33% to 86%. Qatar shows an inactivity prevalence of 41.6%. This study describes the evaluation of 2 phases community-based intervention in university campuses in Qatar, Step into Health (SIH), designed to engage adults from campuses in Qatar into healthy lifestyle through walking. This evaluation aims to assess the effectiveness of mobile technology usage to increase participation in registered adult within the walking program. This study involved 397 eligible students and staff (aged 18-64 years), from 15 university campuses. The mobile technology-based interventions were implemented in 2 phases, (January - May 2018) - 288 participants, and (January - May 2019) - 109 participants with 104 common members that joined both phases of the program. Step counts were assessed by program coordinators using pedometers and mobile applications linked to a web-database. This study provided evidence that a systematic approach of the activism successfully engages adults from campuses in Qatar into a healthy lifestyle This intervention engaged inactive, low active, and active students into the walking program by the use of mobile technology. Results showed a significant increase in steps uploads during phase one of walking intervention when participants received reminders, awareness sessions, and technical support related to mobile technology use. Although these 104 members were committed to a long period of time, (10 months) to perform walking at the low physical activity level, they did not register a significant improvement of the physical efforts over time. The step uploads result for both intervention phases demonstrated a higher level of motivation amongst participants.

Anti-doping education is among the most important tasks of the specialized organizations in this area. A while ago the emphasis was placed on testing actions aimed to identify if the athletes use forbidden substances. Nowadays, the national anti-doping agencies, independently or in partnership with different organizations of the formal (preuniversity or university level) or non-formal education system, have expanded their methods and means designed for anti-doping education. Web-based learning methods in anti-doping education is a new trend in this educational field specific to performance sport. The obvious advantages of these methods convinced the anti-doping organizations to develop and to use on-line tools. Some of the most relevant e-learning platforms are ADel (Alpha, Coach true, Sport Physician Kit On line, Ado Kick Start, Parents' Guide to Support Clean Sport), edu.anad.ro (Romanian Anti-Doping Agency), e-Learning Germany (National Agency from Germany), e-Learning England (AntiDoping Agency from England), iLiftClean Education Platform (Weight Lifting International Federation). The paper intends to emphasize the awareness level of the anti-doping training programs based on web learning methods among Romanian athletes. For this purpose, we organised a survey based on a questionnaire, with the following variables: level of knowledge among athletes about the on-line educational anti-doping tools, the frequency of accessing these tools, the level of efficiency perceived by the athletes who use them, the advantages and disadvantages perceived by the athletes. The research was applied to 150 athletes, aged from 15 to18 and practicing different sports (track and field, artistic gymnastics, handball, swimming, judo, wrestling, volleyball, ice-hockey, ice-skating, cross country skiing, alpine skiing, escalade, snowboard), who accepted to participate in this survey. The conclusions of the paper emphasize some characteristics of the anti-doping education among Romanian athletes and allow us to recommend possible measures to improve the anti-doping educational actions of the Romanian Anti-doping Agency.

The technological and informational development of the last decades has also been an opportunity for the physical exercises field to benefit from the computer-based games effects, through the integration of functional indicators into a set of educational stimuli that aim to motivate and train people for a healthy and sustainable physical activity. Inspired by the characteristics of motor activities, both in structural terms and in physical and psychological demands, computer-based games are now widely used as specific learning tools as serious games and exergames. Nowadays both type of games contributes to the achievement of the specific objectives of different motor activities. The paper aims to present an analysis of the serious games and exergames used in the field by applying a series of scientific criteria and to highlight their contribution at the specific learning process and fitness development. On the other hand, literature review has enabled authors to highlight the main research directions of using computer-based games in motor activities, providing important milestones for expanding the research area. The conclusions of the paper are consistent methodological landmarks for specialists who want to modernize the training process through the use of computer-based games, as well as for the IT specialists who can develop new technologies and software products for this area. ++++++++ serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports serious game, exergame, computer-based games, physical exercises, sports

One of the major components of the life quality is represented by the active lifestyle. The school educative programs should build up a series of competences allowing the young people to practice physical exercises also in their leisure time. The positive effects of this kind of activities will be reflected at all personality levels (physical, cognitive, emotional, and social). But nowadays, one of the most alarming aspects concerning the young people lifestyle is the increased tendency to adopt sedentary habits early at the age. That is the reason for why in this paper we approach the necessity to identify an evaluation model of the teenagers’ activism. The novelty of this evaluation approach is conferred by the missing demarches interested in calibrating the biomonitoring equipment’s that measure the indicators of the active lifestyle at adolescents’ level (heart rate, number of steps/day, number of calories, active time, distance). We have chosen this target group because, in some previous studies, there were identified a decreasing tendency of their cardiovascular fitness and an increasing tendency to become overweight. This information is also presented in the literature, often being associated with the analysis of other diseases. Starting from the aspects mentioned above, we present in this paper how it is possible to integrate a technological component represented by a Smart Sport Watch (designed with integrated GPS and heart rate monitor), in a evaluation model designed to objectify the adolescents’ active lifestyle and to offer a functional model able to put the basis for a referential database specific for this population.

Today computer games are being developed more than for entertainment of the players. In the field of health and education, serious games aim to improve the level of the cognitive abilities, in a more attractive manner. Among the mental process, the concentration and the relaxation are the basic cognitive abilities in tennis. The timely monitoring and the levels of these abilities are important when the performance enhancement is concerned. Mental preparation of tennis players represents an essential aspect of the modern training process. In order to increase its efficiency, the mental preparation uses more often than before biofeedback systems, able to provide an objective and augumented feedback concerning the capacity to control and to maintain the mental abilities at a certain level, during a task. One of the biofeedback systems is represented by Neuroharmony, an electroencephalographic system, that uses also an educational software able to improve the cognitive abilities of the users, through different serious games. In this paper we present one case study concerning the use of Neuroharmony serious games in the mental training of a 16 years old tennis player, who participated in 12 computer assisted lessons. Each lesson was 30 minutes and was held twice per week, before the practical training lessons. We were focused on the following experimental variables: the games results, the variation of the brain waves in the computer tasks and the constancy of the forehand, in a court test. The results reflect some characteristics of the mental training in tennis and the effect of this approach on the practical training efficiency.

In order to develop the effort capacity, the relationship between the effort rate and the physiological response of the body is a defining aspect of the physical training process. To achieve this objective it is necessary to obtain a constant feedback from the subject. The perception of physical exertion issues from a subjective assessment of physiological answers. The integration of this information provides fine-tuning of the exertional responses. One method to build the individual capacity of self-assessment and self-regulating of involvement in the effort is the rate of perceived exertion (RPE). The RPE scale measures feelings of effort and fatigue experienced during the training process. This method is based on the interaction between physiological and perceptual manifestations of the subject and proved to be effective in guiding different types of activities (physical education, sports and leisure activities). This paper aims to present the role of modern technology in the development of the capacity to perceive the effort intensity, when it is used as a supporting tool for the above mentioned method. The research was conducted on a group of four athletes aged 12 - 14 years, practicing tennis at Steaua Bucharest Club, who participated for 2 months in 16 training lessons. In 8 of such activities it have been used also the heart rate monitor watches in order to compare the RPE scale results with the body's physiological responses expressed in terms of the heart rate. The research results highlight the application of technologies in improving the perception of effort, but also the accuracy of this perception in relation to the objective data.

In Romania, the training of sports professionals using the advantages of e-learning is just beginning, despite its many benefits. The most consistent attempts in this direction were made by AFAN, in the project "E-learning for social partners" (2010 - 2013). This project, financed by the ESF through SOP HRD, developed and tested a blended-learning training system for several occupations in sports (sports adviser, manager of sports companies, organizer of sporting events, sports steward, referee) or in sport-related fields (diet and nutrition, sports journalism or personal branding). This paper aims to highlight some features of the learning process, as they were experienced by the target group while using the new training system. To achieve this goal, we analyzed the attitudes of 242 students in relation to the learning tasks of the courses, in conjunction with the results of the respective program evaluations, and their profiles. The attitude of the participants was reflected in the following variables: frequency and regularity of accessing the platform and the type of actions performed, number of hours spent on the platform, participation in specific courses, the most used types of interactive exercises. In addition, we assessed the impact of technology use on the students, as the e-learning platform recorded events resulting from improper use of the work interfaces. The final evaluation of the students was made by each specialist, course lecturer. Data were obtained from reports generated by the Moodle platform developed within this project. The conclusions of the paper are methodological landmarks; they may underlie the design of blended-learning programs aimed at the training for occupations in sports

Sport training is one of the main applications of computer science in sport. The benefits of computer use can be observed in the training programs of athletes, as they are reflected by the optimization of results. In swimming, the sport discipline where specific training, in water, must be permanently completed and linked with nonspecific dry-land training of swimmers, computer training has become a constant. Considering the unstable support of water and, thus, lacking strong support paddle, dry-land exercises are strongly required. It is very important to follow the motion stereotype of swimming movements, which is possible with an ergometer workout program (WEBA Swim model). Computerized environment destined to improve the motor process is eminently appropriate to the performance sports sector. It's well known that combining new technologies with learning skills can refine during the time all athletes' abilities. Considering these premises, this paper highlights the importance of modeling certain sets of exercises on a computerized training machine. More specifically, we analyze the possibility of transferring particular aspects of certain motor structures from the fluid environment onto dry-land. We assessed, by experimental study, the results of seven (7) junior swimmers after some specific modeling of dry-land training sets: basic endurance - marathon and Fartlek (core strength), threshold endurance (anaerobic threshold resistance), overload endurance (lactate tolerance), Australian heart-rate repeats (individualized repetitions increasing from iteration to another the heart rate). Along with the effects on physical training there were also significant aspects related to the satisfaction of athletes using such devices and the results of their use in the motivation to carry out the workout program.

In the training of specialists in Physical education and sports field, the utilization of Web-based tools represents a relatively recent methodological approach. In the context in which a part of the students attending the initial preparation program participate in performance sports training, but the specialists involved into an educational process don't have any more the opportunity to take part in presential continuing training sessions, we think that we should initiate a new methodological approach to the process of building-up specific competences. The present paper aims at checking the efficiency of a Web-based tool utilization to build up the planning competences of the future physical education teachers. In this context, in order to design and develop the training activity, we used the exeLearning software, a tool that facilitates the creation and administration of the specific contents, but also the construction of some knowledge self-assessment questionnaires. The learning object was used by 80 students in the final year of their psycho-pedagogic training program, participants in the Computer-Assisted Instruction course. Following the application utilization, students were asked to draw up a planning document and to express their opinion about the used tool efficiency. To this purpose, we created and administered an opinion questionnaire made up of 12 items grouped in 4 categories - attitude toward the utilization of such learning tools, benefits and difficulties related to the utilization of the created learning object, possible directions of application to different study disciplines (bachelor's level), effects on the learning efficiency. Answers were correlated to students' competence level resulted from their evaluation in the Computer-Assisted Instruction exam. The conclusions of this paper highlight the possibilities to use the Web-based tool in the training of the future specialists in Physical education and sports field and they are accompanied by a series of proposals the application of which would bring real benefits to students.