Sports Activities in Obese Teenagers Improve Social Inclusion and Health

Abstract

Obesity is known to be a major risk of whole range of cardio vascular, metabolic and respiratory disorders. The etiology of obesity can be genetic, hormonal and determine the central obesity (or visceral or android). It is characterized by the deposit of fat especially abdominal and recognizable by a waist-hip ratio of more than 0.85 in women and 0.95 in 'man, and the peripheral (or subcutaneous or gynoid) that shows a ratio of less than 0.85 in women and 0.95 in men. The research was carried out in order to monitor and improve the correct use of the respiratory function of obese adolescents by developing a sports program aimed at reducing body weight and enhancing motor skills on 60 subjects (30 males and 30 females) aged between 14 and 16 years for a period of eight months. Results showed a reduction in body weight for almost all participants. For 26 subjects, the reduction was around 10%, while for others it was around 8%. Only 8 subjects did not signifi cantly change their weight. The improvement of the motor program, on average, was about 9.5%. The phenomenon of obesity is often one of the factors of discomfort conditions in adolescence that slows down the process of social inclusion and highlights "paramorhism" that has negative eff ect on the respiratory function. Sport is one of the most important activities to combat the problem of weight gain because, through the rules of sports disciplines, it favors the acquisition of correct lifestyles.

Students’ Health and its Interrelation with Physical Fitness Level

“…In general, exercise developing endurance allowed determining the most correlation connections in contrast to the other physical exercises, which have a positive influence on the health indicators of students (both men and women). This proves the conclusions of many scientists (Altavilla, D'Elia, & Raiola, 2018;Montesano & Mazzeo, 2019;Wilmore & Costiill, 2004) on the importance of the endurance development and improvement to improve the students' working capacity, health, and efficiency of studying activity.…”

Improvement of Students’ Morpho-Functional Development and Health in the Process of Sport-Oriented Physical Education

“…The most of students attend physical education classes only to fulfill the requirements of the curriculum to pass an exam. According to the data of many scientists [16,17,18], one of the perspective directions for solving these problems is the implementation of the sport-oriented physical education classes, taking into account the students' free choice of sport.…”

“…According to many scholars [16,17,18], one of the main reasons that prevent most students from engaging in physical health-improving and sports activities is the lack of a free choice of the type of motor activity. The studies of various scientists [18,19,20] determine that the number of students who would like to be engaged in sports sections while studying in HEI ranges from 50 to 80 % that proves the need to adjust the educational process of physical education considering interests, motivation and needs of students.…”

Guidelines for Physical Activity—A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess Their Application in the General Population. Have We Achieved Our Goal?

“…The preventive [6] and therapeutic [7] role of PA [8] has been clearly defined under its metabolic, molecular, endocrinological, physiological and psychologic aspects [9,10]. PA has been considered as able to improve health, to avoid or to delay the onset of some non-communicable diseases and to improve well-being and quality of life [11].…”