Developing and updating physical fitness norm for women Aged 18-60 Years of Tehran city

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. Student, Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Iran.

4 MSc, Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Iran.

5 Ph.D. Student, Department of Sport management, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Health-related physical fitness is one of the important issues in exercise physiology that is related to people's physical health and disease prevention. The purpose of this study was to developing and updating the physical fitness norm for women aged 18-60 years old of Tehran city. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 365 women aged 18-60 years old with a mean age of 33.04 ± 9.57 years, height 163.09 ± 6.05 cm, weight 67.17± 11.57 kg from different regions of Tehran were recruited by cluster and random sampling. In this study, body mass index (BMI), Waist circumference (WC), waist to hip ratio (WHR), body fat percentage (caliper), cardio-respiratory fitness (Rockport 1mile walking/Running), Flexibility (sit & Reach), endurance of abdominal muscles (curl up), Endurance of shoulder girdle muscles (modified push up) and strength of hands (hand grip) measured in subjects. Descriptive statistics and computation of Z scores and point percentages were used to construction of norms. The findings of this study showed that the mean cardio respiratory fitness (38.46 ± 7.78 ml / kg.min-1), body fat percentage (38.85± 6.65), BMI (25.40± 4.20 kg/m2) Flexibility (31.50± 8.10 cm), Endurance of abdominal muscles (37.36 ± 14.74), WHR (0.84 ± 0.50), WC (78.65 ± 10.70cm) Endurance of shoulder girdle muscles (18.90 ± 11.94), strength of hand muscles (23.32 ± 4.88 kg).

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Sport Physiology
Volume 15, Issue 58
July 2023
Pages 17-44

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  • Receive Date: 26 December 2020
  • Revise Date: 10 July 2021
  • Accept Date: 17 July 2021

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