| College students, being the future and hope of our nation, shoulder the important historic task of rejuvenating China. In recent years, especially since The Second National Fitness Monitoring Report was co-publicized by the State Sports Administration and the Ministry of Education on September 18, 2006, college students' fitness has become the focus of public attention. As a matter of fact, scientific and effective improvement of college students' fitness has long been the fundamental objective of physical education curriculum. Accordingly, the study on students' fitness improvement is a very significant guide to college sports teaching and extracurricular physical exercises.Starting from the concept of fitness, the present thesis analyzes fitness's essential attribute and constitution as well as the influencing factors. On this basis, a further research is conducted into the theory of students' fitness improvement. Employing various methods such as documentary data, interviews, testing, questionnaire survey and mathematical statistics, this research makes a statistical analysis of fitness of the subjects who are randomly chosen from the freshmen of eight colleges located in Nanjing. The result shows an unfavorable condition of fitness of the college freshmen in Nanjing, especially their physical strength and endurance staying at relatively low level. There are various reasons, including lack of physical exercise in high school, avoidance of fitness training which is made possible by the selective course system, low awareness of extracurricular exercise and insufficiency of sports fields and facilities. In order to improve college students' basic fitness efficiently, the following countermeasures are put forward in the thesis. Firstly, to enhance college sports, college authorities are supposed to implement in earnest the guidelines, policies and codes concerned. Secondly, the present teaching mode needs reform and basic fitness course should be offered to freshmen. Thirdly, extracurricular activities can be actively developed in form of sports clubs under a proper supervision and instruction system so that more students are able to participate in sports. Finally, more money should be spent on construction of sports fields and facilities to supply the students with enough sporting space. |
