Blow Rifle: A Healthy New Sport

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Authors

  • Koji Sugiyama Department of Health and Physical Education, Faculty of Education, Shizuoka University 836, Ohya, Suruga, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17140/SEMOJ-3-148

Keywords:

quality of life (QOL), Japan, Japanese, Blow Rifle, Sport

Abstract

Aging society has been considered as one of the most important problems in Japan. Japanese total annual expenditure on national healthcare in fiscal 2013 exceeded 40 trillion yen ($333 billion) for the first time, reflecting the growing number of elderly people. Doing regular moderate activities both exercise and sports has lot of benefits for health and would improve the physical fitness and quality of life (QOL).

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Published

2017-06-06

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Koji Sugiyama. (2017). Blow Rifle: A Healthy New Sport. Sports and Exercise Medicine , 3(2), 53–57. https://doi.org/10.17140/SEMOJ-3-148

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017): Volume 3 Issue 2 2017

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