Physical Education and Health. Evaluation of muscular fitness and body fat in school adolescents.

Abstract

Physical Education, as a compulsory school subject, must take actions to deal with the high levels of physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyle and obesity in the population. Standing out in importance, the evaluation of physical fitness and its subsequent programming of exercise in schools. The purposes of the study were: 1) To evaluate in a simple way the physical condition of a course at the secondary school level, n = 17 of a private school in the city of La Plata, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2) Know and relate the levels of muscle fitness and body fat in students. After the investigation it was known that obesity negatively influences the results of evaluations of muscular fitness, as other studies show. Concluding that it was possible to assess the physical condition of school students, in order to obtain valuable information in order to prevent physical inactivity.