• Fooozandeh Zaravar

  Author

• Leila Zaravar

  Author

• Nasrin Shokrpour

  Author

• Hassan Tabeian

  Author

• Mohammad Sadegh Mohagheghzade

  Author

Despite the frequent advertisements and recommendations on doing physical activities,
unfortunately the prevalence of doing physical activity among the youth has not improved much.
Regarding the possibility of the changes in the level of physical fitness during the time (due to
the changes in social behavior, food habits, paying attention to exercise and so on), the current
study aimed to investigate the level of physical fitness of the university students over a period of
18 years, from 1994 to 2011. According to the results, the endurance of the abdominal muscles
(measured through sit-up test) and the agility factor in the male and female students has
statistically changed from 1994 to 2011(p<0.001). The explosion power of the lower limb
muscles (measured through jumping with both feet test) in males. Appropriate planning on
improving the level of physical activities of the university students is recommended to be noticed
by the authorities to have healthy experts and specialists in different fields of medicine. That’s
why it is emphasized that “a sound mind is in a sound body”.

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