17 Jan, 2015
School sport: Link made between fitness and showering
BBC News | Adam Brimelow | Health Correspondent | 17 January 2015
More than half of secondary school boys and two-thirds of girls never shower after PE, a study suggests.
The paper, in the European Journal of Sports Sciences, concludes pupils who do not shower are less active.
The researchers, from the University of Essex, say children may be holding back in PE lessons because of anxiety about showering.
But the study did not establish whether those who did not shower were unwilling to exert themselves during PE.
