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Background. Wheelchair rugby is one of most spectacular team games meant for people with cervical spinal cord injury. Lately this sport has been gaining popularity. In order to estimate progress of players and analyze effects of training, coaches use various series of tests of special physical fitness. The aim of this study was to evaluate skills of wheelchair rugby players depending on their functional classification expressed in points and the years they play this sport. Material and methods. A group of 35 wheelchair rugby players were recruited for the study. The players participate in the Polish Wheelchair Rugby League (PLRnW) competitions in teams: Flying Wings Rzeszów. Brave Snails Lublin and Garbate Anioty Radom. The subjects were divided into four groups according to their functional classification in wheelchair rugby: 1st group - 0.5 and 1.0 point players (n = 9 ), 2nd group- 1.5 point (n = 8), 3rd group - 2.0 and 2.5 point (n = 11), and 4th group - 3.0 and 3.5 point (n = 7). The wheelchair rugby players participated in 4 special physical fitness tests: six-minute Cooper test, 20 m sprint, slalom with the ball, medicine ball throw. Results and conclusions. Results of the performed tests showed a strict correlation between the results achieved in tests of special physical fitness and the players' functional classification. No strict correlation between the results achieved in tests of special physical fitness and the years of playing sport was found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. One of the main purposes of general education and physical education is to improve the student's physical performance. This is done by increasing the number of motor skills and improving them, which determine the organism's state of readiness for effective performance of various types of motor tasks. Physical fitness viewed as a combination of health-related components (testing strength, speed, aerobic capacity and muscle strength) and motor performance (testing coordination and power) provides students with a better motivation to care for their own body and health. the level of physical fitness of freshmen entering university sums up, in a way, the effectiveness of school physical education. Adolescents are developing motor skills reaching the level which determines a better or worse performance of a given physical task (e.g. cooper test). Health and full fitness are not only essential factors of human happiness, but also a fundamental social value. these values are not given to people once and for all and their distribution is not fair, so one needs to take care of them and shape them so that they could maintain in good shape as long as possible. Material and methods. the aim of this study was to present the level of physical fitness of female and male students (total number 2098) who entered the West Pomeranian University of Szczecin in the years 2005-2011. the cooper test was used. Results. Each year the average of the most numerous group was always below the average for the given year. Conclusions. A gradual decrease in the freshmen' physical fitness was observed, which results from inadequate work done in secondary schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the University School of Physical Education in Warsaw the project entitled: "The Project of National Center for Research on Physical Fitness" (NCBKF) is being realized. The idea of this project comes from the long-standing tradition of national-level, population-based studies on physical development and fitness of children and adolescents, carried out by the Warsaw-based school. As a result of the studies, rich research material was gathered pertaining to the physical fitness of students in Polish schools. The project realization began in 2009, its basic functionality is expected to be achieved in 2012, whereas full functionality in 2015. The project called "Check yourself" has already been launched. This is a joint action of the University School of Physical Education in our country for the purpose of enabling auto-diagnosis in physical fitness of the largest possible number of members of Polish society. The authors of the project are convinced that realization of the NCBKF mission will result in health improvement of children, adolescents and adults and their more effective functioning in the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]