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Biography

Biography: Vera Simovska-Jarevska

Abstract

Sporting activities are an integral part of population health, everyday life and work, and related to specific aims and interests of society. The aims of our study were: -to determine the value and importance of sporting activities on the basis on influence on cardiorespiratory fitness of youth; -to create national standards for cardiorespiratory fitness of different kind of sport activities by age and gender groups using software analysis. Material and methods: 57 different kind of sport activities were evaluated from the register of the Institute of Sports Medicine in Skopje. A great number of these are already practiced countrywide, and some of them, considerating the dynamics, needs, possibilities and conditions of the social development, are likely to be practiced and improved in the next period. In the first phase, we have created a software tool for the best evaluation of different sport activities and their influence on cardiorespiratory fitness of 10.120 youth, engaged in regular sport activities in a city of Skopje. In the second phase, we evaluated 38 sport activities by using Astrand submaximal test. It was carried out on 891 randomly selected youth. The simple was divided into four groups of approximately the same number of youth by age and gender. In order to determine influence of sporting activities on cardiorespiratory fitness, compjuterized database provided 19 cardiorespiratory and anthropometric incomes, and 33 outcomes. The results of the arbitrary evaluation of spoting activities were evaluated with the essential descriptive statistics. Obtained results of cardiorespiratory fitness of physically active youth are significantly greater than VO2max of sedentary youth, presented in the next table: Age and gender of athletes VO2maxml/kg/min=X+/SD Minimum Maximum Male = 12-16 years 37.68+/-6.72 23 59 Male = 17-21 years 41.40+/-7.99 24.6 64 Female = 12-16 years 34.29+/-6.75 21 53 Female athletes = 17-21 years 36.36+/-7.29 22 58 Sedentary youth (both gender) 24.73+/-7.18 / / The results of software analysis are in order to help research institutes for creating standards through evaluating the influence of sporting activities on cardiorespiratory fitness of youth, specialist of sports medicine, sports coaches and nutritionist in diet planning, and prevention of sports trauma during exercise.