Developing a Healthy Lifestyle of Students Through the Practice of Sport Activities

Ioan Sabin Sopa; Marcel Pomohaci

doi:10.2478/raft-2018-0025

Abstract

Sports activities and disseise prevention is a nowadays worldwide discussed problem, many specialists embraced the idea that physical activities can develop and maintain the health of human body. Our study was focused on finding the habits of a group of students from the University “Lucian Blaga” from Sibiu regarding physical activities, types of sports activities practiced in leisure time, student’s concept about the values and importance of practicing sports activities and so on.

The main method of research was the lifestyle health questionnaire through which we investigated some aspects regarding sports activities influence on the level of health. We choose a sample of 300 students from all three years of study from different faculties from our university.

The results of our investigation showed that students are aware of the positive influence of sports activities on human body.

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