Short exercise breaks during class improve concentration for senior students

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twitter: 107 X users
facebook: 3 Facebook pages

reddit: 2 Redditors
q&a: 1 Q&A thread

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Article details
Title	Short exercise breaks during class improve concentration for senior students
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.ynqy5kefx
Authors	Lubans, David, Mavilidi, Myrto
Abstract	A new study found a few sessions a week of high-intensity interval training helped students pay attention in class.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	29	27%
Chile	13	12%
United States	13	12%
United Kingdom	5	5%
Spain	3	3%
Solomon Islands	1	<1%
India	1	<1%
Norway	1	<1%
Brazil	1	<1%
Other	2	2%
Unknown	38	36%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	76	71%
Scientists	24	22%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	4	4%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	3	3%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 126. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 April 2025.

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#410,182

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#49,884

of 209,021 outputs

Altmetric has tracked 33,203,211 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

So far Altmetric has tracked 209,021 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its peers.