The purpose is to examine the possible effect caused by extra
physical education lessons in a large group of 0th to 4th grade
children attending public schools in the municipality of
Svendborg. Our primary hypothesis is that we will see an average
increase of 10% in the children’s physical activity level
compared to the children in the control group. The intervention
consists of 6 lessons in physical education each week. At the
schools, 3 double physical education lessons are offered to
children attending the 0th to 4th grade (during the 3 years
intervention the program will include 0th to 6th grade
children). The intervention program will be based on the general
age-related principles described by Team Danmark, in order to
insure that the children will achieve the optimal
physiologically and metabolically training-related effects,
based on the available knowledge within this field. Furthermore,
this training concept is chosen since the goal is that all
children during the intervention period should experienc