A Study Assessing on Health-Related Physical Fitness of School Children with The Components of Muscular Strength and Endurance
Keywords:
Muscular strength, Muscular endurance, ObesityAbstract
The assessment-based study on Muscular Strength and endurance on health-related physical fitness was conducted with an objective of understanding the health-related fitness profile of school children of four districts of lower Assam. With 14.4 million obese children, India stands as the second largest country in the world and it is next to China as the home for obese children. Through various study and research, it is emerged as an established fact that obesity is linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, respiratory problem and slow mental growth etc. In the study, schools were selected by using purposive sampling in consideration of feasibility aspect. The sample size of the study was 1000 school children comprising of government school and private school with age range of 6 to 10 years. It is concluded in the study by its findings that government school children carry higher significance on muscular strength and endurance than that of private school counterparts.
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