ORGANISED MEASUREMENT OF PUPILS’ GENERAL PHYSICAL ENDURANCE IN THE NATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION

Abstract

Health is one of the highest values of our lives and its conservation is one of
our most important tasks. The information from testing our health condition
serves not only as guidance but also draws our attention to some possible
necessary treatments by giving actual facts. The situation is the same with the
general physical endurance, the feature showing the physical fitness of the
organism. The optimal degree of it is in close connection with a good state of
health, on the other hand it is a condition of performing everyday duties easily
and energetically. Therefore, checking physical fitness with a simple
measurement is necessary at an early age. Trainers and experts of sports
physiology have been aware of all these for decades, however the systematic,
conceptional, general measuring including all schoolchildren has been carried
out only in part. In my study I wish to represent the steps of organised measuring
the general physical endurance in the national history of the institutional
physical education.