The physical effort, in its different aspects, has permanently conditioned the development of the human being. By means of doing physical exercise, the human beings expresses themselves and are trained. In the process of personality formation, the age of adolescence, including the prolonged adolescence, is very important. This age is characterized by the elan of the body, the elan of the heart, the birth of the personal thinking and the discovery of the world of values (after Debesse, M. quoted by Epuran, M., Horghidan, V., 1994), being the period when the personality affirms and confirms its value. Adolescence is an extremely demanding period both on the physical and psychical level. The study tackles female highschool adolescents and female students. The female adolescents, mainly those starting their student life, have to prove and also to prove to themselves the fact they are efficient, productive, well trained professionals, they have a good social image, allowing them to integrate in a different society groups. The present paper tries to set an existent connection between practising sports activities and becoming aware of the emotions by the female adolescents. The research starts from the premise stating that by means of these activities the female adolescents can increase their adaptive capacity and can control more efficiently the emotions emerging as a consequence of the harmful influences of a civilisation characterized by nervous exhaustion. Emotional intelligence includes 4 types of abilities: to perceive emotions, to use, to understand and manage emotions. According to Raven Bar-Ons opinion (Mihaela Roco, 2004), emotional intelligence refers to being aware of ones own emotions, optimism, respect/consideration for ones own person, self-making, independence. The physical effort, in its different aspects, has permanently conditioned the development of the human being. By means of doing physical exercise, the human beings expresses themselves and are trained. In the process of personality formation, the age of adolescence, including the prolonged adolescence, is very important. This age is characterized by the “elan of the body, the elan of the heart, the birth of the personal thinking and the discovery of the world of values”, being the period when the personality affirms and confirms its value [1, 2]. Adolescence is an extremely demanding period both on the physical and psychical level. The study tackles female high school adolescents and female students. The female adolescents, mainly those starting their student life, have to prove and also to prove to themselves the fact they are efficient, productive, well trained professionals, they have a good social image, allowing them to integrate in a different society groups. The present paper tries to set an existent connection between practicing sports activities and becoming aware of the emotions by the female adolescents. The research starts from the premise stating that by means of these activities the female adolescents can increase their adaptive capacity and can control more efficiently the emotions emerging as a consequence of the harmful influences of a civilization characterized by nervous exhaustion. Emotional intelligence includes 4 types of abilities: to perceive emotions, to use, to understand and manage emotions. According to Raven Bar-On opinion, emotional intelligence refers to being aware of one’s own emotions, optimism, respect/consideration for one’s own person, self-making, independence [3].
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.
The ALPHA-FIT Project, completed in 2009 and funded by the European Union, aimed at providing a set of validated tools to assess levels of physical activity and fitness. This study seeks to assess indirectly a component of muscular fitness, namely the leg extensor power in young Romanians aged 20-29 years and also to compare the two methods of measurement using the metric band and optical sensors. The research was conducted within the UPB Sports Complex between 15 October and 1 December 2016. There were investigated 493 young people, of which 334 were males and 159 females. Indirect assessment of leg extensor power was achieved simultaneously through two tests: Jump-and-reach, according to instructions specified in the Tester’s Manual for ALPHA-FIT Test Battery for Adults Aged 18-69, and Vertical Jump, using the Optojump system and the Optojump Pro software. To analyze the results in the Jump-and-reach test, they were processed by quartile, according to the analysis used in ALPHA-FIT. Values achieved by male subjects are: 44, 48,5, 54 and 72cm for the first, second, third and fourth quartiles. Female subjects achieved the following results: 27,5, 31,5, 37 and 54 cm for the first, second, third and fourth quartiles. Simultaneously with the application of Jump-and-reach test, it was used the Optojump system, namely the Vertical Jump test. Results for the Vertical jump assessed using the Optojump system are significantly lower than those assessed through the Jump-and-reach test, between 32.18 % (female subjects, first quartile) and 23.71% (male subjects, fourth quartile).Since the ALPHA-FIT Test Battery has no reference values for the population aged 20-29 years, as regards the Jump-and-reach test, the results of this research can represent, due to the specificity and size of the investigated sample, a baseline for both Romania and other European countries.
Information is one of the most important factors in the process of human development as is briefly and eloquently expressed in the saying: "One wise man is worth ten rulers". Due to the specificities of the subjects, concise and complex information in higher-education heightens both the level of understanding as well as, indirectly, the degree of the subjects' participation in their own formative process. The students' responsiveness to information is directly proportional to their interest in the themes discussed. Theoretical training in physical education, a component of the instructive-educative process, is a "rara avis" in all levels of education except for the specialized units. Planned instruction assisted by the computer represents an efficient solution which may contribute to the fulfilment of objects in physical education in higher-education systems from universities of a different profile where theoretical courses that might present the characteristics and effects of the practice of physical education are missing. This research has had several stages of development. In the first stage, the theoretical subjects were chosen according to the interest and importance attributed by the questioned students. Accordingly, they were presented in a mini-course of theoretical training that contained maximum information in a minimum amount of words. In the end, the information presented in this course was reorganized in sequences of planned instruction. The experiment for evaluation had two independent variables: the first was programmed assisted computer learning and the second was self-study. The dependent variable consisted in the theoretical knowledge gained which was evaluated through the direct application of an open-answer questionnaire by the operator.
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