Enhanced Physical Fitness Training Modelfor Physical Education Students

Abstract

Right practice makes perfect – best outcomes emerge from right training. The study aimed to propose a physical fitness training program for the third and fourth year high school students of Palompon Institute of Technology. This study the examined: the profile of the students (speed, strength, flexibility, agility, endurance), the physical activities undertaken, the extent of the training techniques employed (Circuit Training, Fartlek Training, Interval Training), and the problems met by the teachers. The descriptive method of research was used in the study. A total number of 105 students composed of 48 third year and 57 fourth year high school students and three Physical Fitness Test developed by DEC-BPESS. The results reveal that students have low fitness level as evidenced by the physical fitness test result, wherein the majority of 105 students respondents performed below the target set. The activities most often undertaken were jogging, for speed and endurance, ball passing for agility, and aerobic for endurance, while the rest of the other exercises were either only satisfactorily undertaken or poorly undertaken and a few were very poorly undertaken. The circuit and interval training techniques were “seldom†applied and the Fartlek was sadly “never†used. Problems on inadequacy of facilities and exercise materials; lack of support from parents; the failure of the students to follow instructions, as well as the lack of interest on the part of students to do the exercises were only “seldom†and “sometimes†met.