Background:The first Danish Report Card on Physical Activity (PA) for Children and Youth describes Denmark’s efforts in promoting and facilitating PA and PA opportunities for children and youth.Methods:The report card relies primarily on a synthesis of the best available research and policy strategies identified by the Report Card Research Committee consisting of a wide presentation of researchers and experts within PA health behaviors and policy development. The work was coordinated by Research and Innovation Centre for Human Movement and Learning situated at the University of Southern Denmark and the University College Lillebaelt. Nine PA indicators were graded using the Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card development process.Results:Grades from A (highest) to F (lowest) varied in Denmark as follows: 1) Overall Physical Activity (D+), 2) Organized Sport Participation (A), 3) Active Play (INC; incomplete), 4) Active Transportation (B), 5) Sedentary Behaviors (INC), 6) Family and Peers (INC), 7) School (B), 8) Community and the Built Environment (B+), and 9) Government strategies and investments (A-).Conclusions:A large proportion of children in Denmark do not meet the recommendations for PA despite the favorable investments and intensions from the government to create good facilities and promote PA.

This file was dowloaded from the institutional repository Brage NIH -brage.bibsys.no/nih Steen-Johnsen, K., Kirkegaard, K. L. (2010) This article examines the development and organization of fitness exercise within Scandinavia in the latter half of the twentieth century. Based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative data from Denmark and Norway, contemporary differences in the distribution and organization of fitness exercise in these two countries are identified. Compared to Norway, Denmark has a relatively weakly developed for-profit fitness sector, combined with a strong tradition for fitness exercise within the non-profit sector. The relative conceptual and organizational openness of the non-profit Danish gymnastics tradition and the adaptive work conducted by for-profit fitness entrepreneurs in Norway in the 1990s are presented as conditions that have led to this situation. The article thus concludes that even though the Scandinavian welfare states share many overall national characteristics and values, the conditions for the introduction and development of new exercise forms differ, and must be studied specifically in relation to its national context.

Artiklen omhandler fitnesskundernes motiver til at være medlem af et fitnesscenter, hvor det viser sig at det handler både om lyst og pligt. An increasing number of physical active people are apparently choosing exercise characterized by duty rather than sports characterized by desire.This article discusses the development based on the creation of duty and desire as contradictory perceptions and extreme opposites, although they both result in restrictions and limited freedom. The intention of this article is to develop and qualify these dualistic ‘models’ of explanation. This is done through a discussion of motives and motivation and through new empirical data concerning fitness-practitioners’ own views on their exercise. Finally the concept ‘urge’ is presented as an attempt to dissolve the relation between the duty and the desire as contradictions. This can contribute to a more qualified explanation and understanding of the practitioners’ choice of fitness as a sport activity characterized by obligation.