Physical Fitness

We evaluated the effectiveness of a low-intensity, home-based physical activity program (Onco-Move) and a moderate- to high-intensity, combined supervised resistance and aerobic exercise program (OnTrack) versus usual care (UC) in maintaining or enhancing physical fitness, minimizing fatigue, enhancing health-related quality of life, and optimizing chemotherapy completion rates in patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. We randomly assigned patients who were scheduled to undergo adjuvant chemotherapy (N = 230) to Onco-Move, OnTrack, or UC. Performance-based and self-reported outcomes were assessed before random assignment, at the end of chemotherapy, and at the 6-month follow-up. We used generalized estimating equations to compare the groups over time. Onco-Move and OnTrack resulted in less decline in cardiorespiratory fitness (P < .001), better physical functioning (P ≤ .001), less nausea and vomiting (P = .029 and .031, respectively) and less pain (P = .003...

Physical fitness is a key indicator of health in children and adolescents and can predict the health status in the later phases of an individual's life. Physical fitness has a multidimensional structure and can be assessed through its different components: body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, musculoskeletal fitness, motor fitness, and flexibility. There are more than fifteen health-related physical fitness test batteries which are used worldwide. The aim of this study was to analyse the most widely implemented field-based test batteries for assessing physical fitness and their ability to represent the relationship between the physical fitness components and the health of children and adolescents. The analyses of the literature showed that the test batteries 'Eurofit', 'FitnessGram' and 'Alpha-fit' are the most widely applied. The components and the tests which are included in these batteries were presented in detail, as well as the applicability of the implementation of these tests within the framework of a school programme. The newly proposed test battery 'PREFIT' appears to be the only one for assessing preschool children between the ages of three and five. Conclusion: the physical fitness assessment of children and adolescents presents us with vital information which can be utilised to maintain and improve children's health. Therefore, it is of particular importance for schools to implement health-related physical fitness test batteries which are in accordance with the age of the participants and best reflect the relationship between physical fitness and their health.

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Shkola, O., Zhamardiy, V., Saienko, V., Tolchieva, H., & Poluliashchenko, I. (2020). The structure model of methodical system usage fitness-technology in student physical education. International Journal of Applied Exercise Physiology (IJAEP), Vol. 9(10), 89-96.
The article describes the model of a methodical system of fitness technology usage in the student physical education process. The structure of the author’s model consists of motivational-target, content-organizational, technological and control-diagnostic blocks. The target block is formed by the purpose, tasks, functions, system of knowledge and skills, the structure of physical training, which aims at the formation of harmoniously developed highly qualified future specialists. The content-organizational block is based on the general didactic and partially didactic principles, and also meets the criteria of selection of the means and forms of fitness technologies. The foundation of the technological block is the educational-methodical complex in the discipline "Physical education" (lectures, practical, consultations, independent lessons, manuals, methodical recommendations, sets of tasks, means for self-preparation, test complexes, evaluation criteria of students in physical education, etc.). It is the technology of teaching physical education that reveals the conditions for the functioning of the methodical system, that is, in our case, the planned use of fitness technology to ensure the fulfilment of physical education tasks. The control-diagnostic block provides for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the use of fitness, which allows checking the formation of the target, content, organizational and technological blocks of the methodical system.
Keywords: physical culture, methodical, model, fitness, students.
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