Optimizing the Structuring of Physical Effort During Physical Education Lessons According to Body Particularities Assessed Through Bioelectric Impedance Using Bodyvision Software
Optimizing the Structuring of Physical Effort During Physical Education Lessons According to Body Particularities Assessed Through Bioelectric Impedance Using Bodyvision Software

Summary/Abstract: Lifestyle, lack of physical movement, sedentariness have all led to the growth of obesity among young people in our country. The major risk of obesity at a young age is that such persons would continue to have overweight issues later on in life, with all the negative consequences implied. The purpose of this research is: to measure and assess in a complex way, by using modern technology and an appropriate software program, the body composition of students at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, to create a database for the body composition of young people aged between 19 and 25 years, which is relevant by the number of subjects and the complexity of the assessed indicators, as well as to obtain real data allowing for the subsequent optimization of the means used in physical education and sports lessons. The sample investigated comprised 361 subjects, of which 207 males and 154 females, with ages between 19 and 25 years, all students at University Politehnica of Bucharest. The students participating in this research were informed about its objectives and agreed to the processing, analysis and storage of the data regarding their assessments. In this research we have used the Tanita FitScan BC-601 device with bodyvision software, considered by the specialists as being a powerful instrument in assessing not only the health condition in terms of body composition but also in the monitoring of efficiency of any fitness program. Using bioelectric impedance analysis technology (BIA) based on the data provided by 8 electrodes, the Tanita soft provided 19 assessments: 9 at a global level and 10 at a segmentar level (arms, legs and trunk). Of all these assessments, the most relevant for our research are the weight, BMI, total body fat, visceral fat, muscle mass, bone mass, metabolic age and total body water. The values provided by Tanita have been recorded in protocols, centralized in tables and statistically and mathematically processed. The comparison of the indicators obtained with the reference values according to the subjects' gender and age particulars has been presented graphically. The values resulting from this research have been capitalized in a database for the population with ages between 19 and 25 years according to the gender particulars for the following indicators: weight, BMI, total body fat, visceral fat, muscle mass, bone mass, metabolic age and total body water. The results will be used in elaborating lesson structures for the students at University Politehnica of Bucharest, together with an optimal component of the aerobe effort that will lead, in time, at the normalization of the body composition and, indirectly, at the improvement of the health condition.

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