Whether they are playing sport or cycling to school, teenagers’ academic performance is boosted by doing regular physical exercise.
Researchers from the Universities of Strathclyde and Dundee have discovered that pupils’ exam grades improve in direct correlation with the amount of regular exercise they do.
In particular, moderate to vigorous physical exercise helps girls to achieve better results in science.
The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, is based on a study of nearly 5,000 children who were born in the early 1990s and have been tracked throughout their education.
At the age of 11 the intensity and duration of the children’s daily exercise were measured for periods of between three and seven days.
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