Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to investigate and to compare the physical fitness of the physical education instructors in the college of physical education in the northeastern region and to set up the physical fitness levels for the physical education instructors. The subjects were 59 male physical education instructors from four colleges of physical education in northeastern region Chaiyapoom, Udornthani, Mahasarakarm and Srisaket. The physical fitness variables which used to compare were : resting heart rate, resting systolic blood pressure, vital capacity, grip strength, back muscle strength, leg muscle strength, body flexibility, percent of body fat and maximum oxygen putake. The obtained data were then analysed in order to find the means and standard deviations and the One Way Analysis of variance in which the significant difference among groups were determined. It was found that : 1. The means of test items for the physical education instructors in the age group 20 30 years were 72.11 beats per minute for the resting heart rate, 117.29 mm.Hg. for the resting systolic blood pressure, 0.76 kilograms per body weight for the grip strength, 1.69 kilograms per body weight for the back muscle strength, 1.86 kilograms per body weight for the leg muscle strength, 13.55 centimeters for the body flexibility, 59.36 milliliters per body weight for the vital capacity, 5.73 percents for the percent of body fat and 39.64 milliliters per body weight per minute for the maximum oxygen uptake. 2. The means of test items for the physical education instructors in the age group 31 40 years were 69.75 beats per minute for the resting heart rate, 123.75 mm.Hg. for the resting systolic blood pressure, 0.76 kilograms per body weight for the grip strength, 1.60 kilograms per body weight for the back muscle strength, 1.73 kilograms per body weight for the leg muscle strength, 12.32 centimeters for the body flexibility, 53.26 milliliters per body weight for the vital capacity, 9.33 milliliters percents for the percent of body fat and 33.93 milliliters per body weight per minute for the maximam oxygen uptake. 3. The physical fitness of test items for the physical education instructors in the college of physical education in the northeastern region in the age group 20 30 years 31 40 years were not significant difference at the .05 level for the resting heart rate, resting systolic blood pressure, grip strength, back muscle strength, leg muscle strength, body flexibility, vital capacity and percent of body fat. While the maximum oxygen uptake for the age group 20-30 years the physical education instructors in the college of physical education in Srisaket was better than the Chaiyapoom, Udornthani and Mahasarakarm with significant difference at the .01 level and the age group 31-40 years of the physical education instructors in the college of physical education in Srisaket was better than the Udornthani and Mahasarakarm with Significant difference at the .01 and .05 level respectively. 4. The physical fitness levels for the physical education instructors in the college of physical education in the northeastern region were categorized as following : 4.1 The grip strength of group 20-30 and 31-40 years were categorized into excellent, good, moderate, rather low and low level as 0.95 and over; 0.86-0.94; 0.68-0.85; 0.59-0.67; 0.58 and under respectively 4.2 The back muscle Strength of group 20-30 years were categorized into excellent good, moderate, rather low and low level as 2.30 and over; 2.00-2.29; 1.40-1.39; 1.09 and under respectively and the age group of 31-40 years as 2.17 and over; 1.89-2.16; 1.33-1.88; 1.05-1.32; 1.04 and under respectively 4.3 The leg muscle strength of group 20-30 years were categorized into excellent, good, moderate, rather low and low level as 2.61 and over; 2.24-2.60; 1.50-2.23; 1.13-1.49; 1.12 and under respectively and the group of 31-40 years as 2.40 and over; 2.07-2.39; 1.41-2.06; 1.08-1.40; 1.07 and under respectively. 4.4 The flexibility of group 20-30 years were categorized into excellent, good, moderate, rather low and low level as 24.0 and over, 18.8-23.9; 8.4-18.7; 3.2-8.3; 3.1 and under respectively and the age group of 31-40 years as 28.4 and over; 20.4-28.3; 4.4-20.3; -4.4-4.3; -4.5 and under respectively. 4.5 The vital capacity of group 20-30 years were categorized into excellent, good, moderate, rather low and low level as 74.89 and over; 67.13-74.88; 51.61-67.12; 43.85-51.60; 43.84 and under respectively and the age group of 31-40 years as 75.01 and over; 64.14-75.00; 42.40-64.13; 31.53-42.39; 31.52 and under respectively 4.6 The percent of body fat of group 20-30 years categorized into high, rather high, moderate, rather low and low level as 9.28 and over; 7.51-9.27; 3.97-7.50; 2.20-3.96; 2.19 and under respectively and the age group of 31-40 years as 15.50 and over; 12.42-15.49; 6.26-12.41; 3.18-6.25; 3.17 and under respectively 4.7 The maximum oxygen uptake of group 20-30 years were categorized into excellent, good, moderate, rather low and low level as 62.29-and over; 50.97-62.28; 28.33-50.96; 17.01-25.32; 17.00 and under respectively and the age group of 31-40 years as 53.53 and over; 43.74-53.52; 24.16-43.73; 14.37-24.15; 14.36 and under respectively.