Nível de aptidão física relacionada à saúde: escola pública e escola privada

Abstract

Physical fitness is widely studied in the literature, since it is linked to the maintenance and promotion of health. It is seen from two perspectives, health and motor performance. The objective of this work was to analyze the levels of physical fitness related to health in students from two schools (public and private) in the city of Maceió. To do so, anthropometric variables (age, height, body mass and BMI) and health- related physical fitness variables (abdominal resistance, flexibility and cardiorespiratory resistance) were analyzed using the Proesp-BR protocol, the study participants were composed of 45 students of both sexes, (male = 23 and female = 22) aged between 14 and 19 years old belonging to the first year of high school. The results showed that boys from the private school had better mean values of cardiorespiratory resistance (p = 0.001) when compared to those from the public school. In relation to gender, in general, boys had higher mean values of BMI (male = 22.0 ± 3.95, Female = 21.6 ± 3.09, p = 0.829), greater cardiorespiratory resistance (Male = 1103 ± 320m, Female = 663 ± 119m, p = 0.001) and number of sit-ups (Male = 36.8 ± 8.53, Female = 25.4 ± 7.46, p = 0.001) in relation to girls. There was no difference between girls from public and private schools. We can conclude that, in relation to health-related physical fitness, the private school showed better results in the cardiorespiratory fitness variable. This result was most likely due to the better infrastructure of private schools or the opportunity to access environments for the practice of physical activities outside the school environment that students from the private school probably have. It was also possible to conclude that boys showed better results than girls in two variables: strength and localized muscular resistance and cardiorespiratory resistance.