| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 體育學系碩士班 === 93 === The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to explore the
association between the college Athletes’ health physical fitness and
smoking. One hundred and eighty-five college athletes were included in
this study during 2004. Health physical fitness was evaluated and tested
by five measurements: body mass index (BMI), flexibility (by trunk
forward bending with sitting position), muscle endurance (by repeating
trunk forward bending from supine to sitting position), muscle power (by
jumping), cardiovascular endurance (by 1600-meter running). Health
physical fitness measurements were the same as the Ministry of
Education’s Fitness Measurements. Athletes’ smoking status and several
baseline measurements were measured by questionnaires which were
distributed immediately after the evaluations of health physical fitness.
The data were analyzed by statistical software SPSS for Window version
10.0.
The baseline data were not significant different between two groups:
the smoking and non-smoking group. The means of the muscular
endurance were significant different between two groups: 41.47 ±7.94
and 45.3 ±11.43 times, for smoking and non-smoking group
respectively. The means of the muscle power were significant different
between two groups: 229.71 ±30.48 and 239.15 ±27.34 cm, for
smoking and non-smoking group respectively. The means of the
cardiovascular endurance were significant different between two groups:
492.11 ±92.68 and 421.95 ±45.36 second, for smoking and
non-smoking group respectively. The means of BMI, flexibility were not
significant different between two groups.
In this study, we found that there were significant better health
physical fitness measurements for non-smoking group than smoking
group in terms of muscle power, muscle endurance and cardiovascular
endurance. Smoking may influence the health physical fitness as early as
in the early years of smoking history.
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