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KMID : 1123820060080020075
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Health & sports medicine
2006 Volume.8 No. 2 p.75 ~ p.83
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Comparisons of body composition and physical fitness in the adult women between metropolis and small city
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Sun Sang-Kyu
Chung Dong-Chun
Park Mi-Hee
Ko Kwang-Jun
Kim Ji-Suk
Jung Woon-Sik
Lee Kang-Koo
Lee Mi-Joung
Kim Da-Hye
Cho Seung-Hwan
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Abstract
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This study examined the comparisons of body composition and physical fitness between people who live in the city, over 1 million in population, and people in under 300,000 in population. They were two groups - Metropolitan(519 people, 30’s : 150 people, 40’s : 226people, 50’s : 143people); Small city(416 people 30’s : 197 people 40’s : 131 people 50’s : 88 people) - and took the measure of their body components, Cardiorespiratory endurance, Abdominal endurance, Upper-body endurance, Strength, Flexibility, Agility, Power. The collected data were analyzed by two-way ANOVA. The results were as follows. 1)The town shows no significant difference in BMI, WHR, %fat, Cardiorespiratory endurance, Strength, flexibility, Power among the two groups. However, Metropolitan showed higher Abdominal endurance, Upper-body endurance, Agility than the small city. 2)The results also showed that BMI, %Fat, WHR were incrementing, and cardiorespiratory endurance, Abdominal endurance, Upper-body endurance, Strength, Agility, Power significantly decrementing among older people. However, flexibility did not show any difference.
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KEYWORD
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women, fitness, city, %fat, BMI, WHR
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