SOMATIC PARAMETERS AND GENERAL PHYSICAL FITNESS LEVEL OF SCHOOL CHILDREN (7–10 YEARS) IN TOWN RUZOMBEROK IN SLOVAKIA

Abstract

The purpose of this process is to monitor not only real present situation from the point of view of physical fitness level, but potentially also try to find gifted individuals for sports activities and enable them to develop their talent. The name of this town project is BUBO. There are involved several schools, from kinder garden to primary and secondary schools, too. The base of used tests is reduced Eurofit test battery: body height (BH), body weight (BW), standing broad jump (SBJ), sit and reach (SR), 10 x 5 m shuttle run (10x5), bent arm hanging (BAH), sit – ups (SU) and endurance shuttle run (ENDU). Results are comparing with norms of Slovak population from 1993/4 years. In this contribution are presented first results of 137 children, 82 girls and 55 boys from primary schools. Comparison of somatic parameters shows that differences between our boys and girls are not so great. In physical fitness tests can be seen that boys reach better results except test SR. BH of our groups is slightly lower like are former population norms, while BW is mainly in groups of boys in age 9 and 10 years higher like these population norms.