A Study On Impact Of Orienteering To University Students’ Health-related Physical Fitness

Health is precious wealth of human society, is an important guarantee of human survival and development. The level of national health is a concrete manifestation of the country’s comprehensive national strength, is an important symbol to reflect a country’s social development, progress and civilization. It is also related to strategic issues of a country’s future and destiny. Strengthen study of national health. Use indicator of science to evaluate national health status. Continue to improve and enhance the level of national health. It is the most real action of implementing "sports development, and enhance the people’s physique".With the accelerated pace of modern society life and the rapid increase of the working pressure. Sub-health population is high proportion. The situation of adolescent health is not optimistic. The level of the population health is one of our focus. At present, Orienteering has become a favorable outdoor sport in modern young people. It is one of the preferred sports college students sunshine sports. "Physical fitness" is a novel concept into China in recent years. It reflects the body’s ability of adapting to the external environment, is also an important indicator of measuring the body’s quality. The study selected universities of orienteering elective course in Xi’an University of Technology, Northwest University of Political &Law, Xi’an University of Arts and Science, and Xi’an Polytechnic University as a research object. Experimental way as the major research methods. Select the height, weight, Sit and Reach, grip strength,1 minute sit-ups, one minute from the standing squat, male 1600m run/female 1200m run and so on as test indicators. Analysis of experimental data for comparison before and after the exercise. The study shows no significant changes in body composition and upper limb muscle strength of college students through 4 months orienteering exercise. It improve college students flexibility, and girls change is much larger than the boys in magnitude. Lower extremity muscular endurance and cardiorespiratory endurance were significantly enhanced. Recommended that the competent departments actively promote orienteering in our colleges generally carried out. Allow more students to experience orienteering bring movement happiness. To improve the status of our students stamina continuously decline.The paper investigates the impact of orienteering to university students’ health-related physical fitness. In order to provide scientific theory draws for national physique monitoring, offer a reference for physical education and college physical education curriculum, to improve college students’ health-related fitness level can play an active guiding significance. to provide the scientific reference theory and viable practical support colleges in universities promote orienteering for education policy-making departments.