Physical Activity and Physical Fitness of Students at University of Physical Education and Sport in Biala Podlaska
Journal Title: Polish Journal of Applied Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction. Physical exercise deficiency and lack of proper habits related to systematic physical activity, especially among the youth, can be particularly dangerous from the point of view of health in the further decades of their lives. Materials and methods. The study covered a group of 95 students studying Physical Education on Physical Education and Sport Faculty in Biała Podlaska, with 39 of them being sportspeople training, among other things, football and handball, volleyball, basketball, athletics, MMA, taekwon-do and swimming. Results. All the respondents prefer an active model of spending leisure time, where slightly fewer than every third student (29.4%) are the people who systematically attend trainings in sports clubs. Almost all of the researched people (92.64%) achieved the level of physical condition described as high between 468 and 667 points on the ICSPFT scale. Conclusions. All the respondents prefer an active model of spending leisure time, which can be connected with the studied faculty, where slightly fewer than two third of them engage in activities classified as intensive. It means that in the light of the newest health standards adopted by WHO, all the researched students of Physical Education Department fulfilled the recommendations concerning pro-health physical activity. It was stated that almost all the respondents achieved high scores in ICSPFT, however, no statistically significant correlations between the results obtained in subsequent ICSPFT trials assessing physical fitness and their weight and height were observed.
Authors and Affiliations
Artur Litwiniuk, Ryszard Cieśliński, Elżbieta Huk-Wieliczuk, Igor Cieśliński, Juris Grants
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- DOI 10.19260/PJAS.2016.2.4.03
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