The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated and facilitated the introduction of telework in organizations. This has also impacted the workers’ relationship between work and private life. The aim of the current study was to examine the links between resilience and mode of work (stationary vs. remote) and the work–home and home–work relationships, and whether they are mediated by passion for work and strategies of coping with stress. The study was carried out on a sample of 1251 participants from Great Britain, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Vietnam. The following measures were used: The Survey Work–Home Interaction, The Brief Resilience Coping Scale, The Passion Scale, and the Brief COPE. Results showed that the more stationary the mode of work, the lower the intensity of the negative influence of personal life on work. Resilience was revealed to have a positive effect on worker functioning. The study also showed a relationship between education and gender and passion for work. Finally, the importance of furthering the knowledge on the home–work and work–home relationships among teleworkers is discussed.

Football is a situation sport where football players are characterized by a great variety and complexity of activities during the game, both in contact with the opponent and in the immediate vicinity of the opponent, while cooperating with other teammates. Sports scientists and coaches need to find out more about the set of techniques, its diversity and the amount of technique in top level football games in order to guide the optimal planning and implementation of the training process in the technical training of football players. Due to the diversity of techniques used by football players, there are different approaches to the classification of these techniques. However, it is very important to group all techniques according to their common features in order to adequately assess the structure of a football game, its development tendencies and issues. Research aim: to compare and analyse the essence of the classification of football technique and its development tendencies. Research methods: analysis of scientific articles (electronic scientific databases ScienceDirect, Google Scholar), search keywords – football, football technique, classification of football technique. Main results of the research: two main approaches dominate in the classification of football technique: the technique approach and the game approach. Initially, football technique was mainly grouped by taking into account the player’s actions with or without the ball, the level of difficulty of the technique element, the role of the players and the player’s actions on the spot or in motion. As football develops, football technique is classified by taking into account the effectiveness of its application in specific tactical situations.

Nowadays sedentary lifestyle is becoming more and more frequent all over the world. Obesity represents one of the most serious health issues (Hill et al., 2008). It develops because of misbalance between energy intake and consumption, which results from human behavior – feeding behavior, leisure time spent physiology and life quality objective factors (Haslam & James, 2005). The aim of the research is to describe women’s involved in fitness relation of body composition parameters and subjective evaluation of the amount of physical activities and objective parameters of life quality. Research methods: the study included 51 women (27 +/- 6 years old). TANITA BC-545 platform was applied to evaluate body composition parameters and IPAQ short version was used to state the amount of physical activities. SPSS ver.17.0 data procession program was applied to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics (frequency, mode, mean); mathematical statistics (One-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Spearman rank correlation) was made. Results: the research showed that there is a number of weak significant correlations between women’s in fitness body composition parameters, the amount of physical activities, the habits of spending leisure and the life quality objective factors (0.2<|rs|<0.49; p< 0.05). Whereas there were noted strong (0.7<|rs|<0.99; p<0.01) and moderate (0.5<|rs|<0.69; p<0.01) correlations among body composition parameters. Conclusions: Women’s, involved in fitness physical activities, life quality objective factors and the habits of spending leisure have the impact on the body composition parameters.

The participation of youth in sports is pivotal for their holistic development, influencing physical health, mental well-being, and social skills. Parents play an indispensable role in this process by providing the necessary financial resources and emotional backing. Their involvement ensures that young people could engage in sports. The aim of the research is to comparatively analyse different parental support systems in youth sport and to establish aims of future research. Research methods: analysis of scientific articles (electronic scientific databases Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus), search keywords – “sport*” OR “youth-sport*” OR “young athlete*” AND “support*” OR “psychological need*” AND “family *” OR “parent*” OR “father*” OR “mother*”. The period covered by the research is from 1990 to 2022 and abstracts, conference proceedings, dissertations, book chapters, and articles published in non-peer-reviewed journals were excluded from the search. Main results of the research: the role of parents is considered very important in the athletic development of children and youth, providing emotional, financial, and social support. The research demonstrates that inadequate support from the state/community, coaches and society can hamper parents’ ability to effectively support their children and youth in sports.

Health impairments can compromise occupational performance, thereby diminishing productivity when individuals are unable to meet job demands. Reduced aerobic capacity is specifically associated with a diminished ability to perform prolonged tasks, as lower cardiorespiratory fitness restricts both endurance and physiological efficiency. The aim of the study is to assess the habitual physical activity and aerobic endurance and BMI of office workers and to find relationship among parameters. Methods: 51 office workers participated in the study (89 % women and 11 % men, with a mean age of 42.2 ± 10.1 years). Data was collected using the short version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and the 6-Minute Walk Test (6-MWT). The questionnaire process and the collection of data from the 6-MWT of respondents took place anonymously, with the permission of the Research Ethics Committee of Rīga Stradiņš University. Mathematical statistics (descriptive statistics and Spearman Rank correlation) were used. This research was funded by the framework of the Plan of the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility and the State budget grant RSU/LSPA-PA-2024/1–0013. The results have shown that 41 % of office workers do not participate in vigorous physical activities, while 19 % participate in them two days a week. On the other hand, 19 % of office workers do not participate in moderate physical activities during the week. The results of the 6-MWT study indicate that 88 % are healthy people, and the average result of the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) in the group was 516.82 meters. The participants spend on average 472.92 minutes sitting per day, which corresponds to approximately 7 hours. There is a correlation between the time spent participating in moderate physical activities and the distance covered in the 6-MWT test, and the longer the employees sit, the less distance covered in the 6-MWT. Conclusions: the study examined the relationship between daily levels of moderate physical activity, sedentary time, and aerobic endurance, emphasizing the necessity for office employees to reduce prolonged sitting. The findings suggest that, moving forward, multifaceted strategies will be required to effectively encourage physical activity within workplace settings. Keywords: physical activity, BMI, aerobic endurance, office workers.