A Comparative Analysis on Health-related Physical Fitness According to Gender and Subject-Health Condition in University Students

This study compared the health-related physical fitness among university students based on gender and their condition of subjective-health and aimed to identify whether subjective-health of one’s status of health would be appropriate as an proxy variable of health-related physical fitness. Toward this end, the study measured the physical fitness of 100 university students and produced the following results. First, there were differences by gender in factors like cadiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, and flexibility, and there were also differences in muscular strength and the body fat percentage by gender and the change in the health-related physical fitness of one’s physical condition. Second, for female university students, the health-related physical fitness of their physical condition may be used as a proxy variable for physical strength, except muscular endurance.