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KMID : 0353019700070010455
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Korean Journal of Public Health
1970 Volume.7 No. 1 p.455 ~ p.460
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A Study on the Physical Fitness of the Korean Athletes
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Abstract
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This study was carried out to observe relative physical fitness scores among the outstanding Korean athletes and to help establishment of standard of physical fitness. The size of this study were 135 athletes(male 98, female 37) who had participated in reinforced training camp prepared for the Mexico Olympic Games in 1968. The items of the study were body structure (height, chest girth, body weight), muscular strength (backlifting, grasping strength), flexibility(body torsion), muscular endurance (sit up) and power (100M or 60M dash).
results of the study are summarized as follows:
1. The body structure as height, chest girth, body weight was generally improved than that of former result.
2. On back lifting, weight lifter, athletics and wrestling player showed powerful in comparison with athletes belonging to other sport items.
3. Tennis and badminton players show greater gap in score of grasping strength between right and left than that of other player.
4. Flexibility of male athletes shows less than that of female athletes.
5. The scores of female athletes in sit up made generally not progress.
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