Geographic variability of children fatness and fitness is important for understanding the effects of various distinct lifestyles of young people. The purpose of this study is to compare the physical fitness of girls in capitals of two western Balkan countries: Serbia and Slovenia. The cluster sample of 138 subjects consists of 13-year-old primary school girls from Belgrade and Ljubljana. All subjects were measured in the 2006/2007 academic year. Data from the Eurofit system were used in the analysis. A multivariate analysis of variance has shown that there are statistically significant (p<0.001) differences between the countries for the entire set of tested motor and morphological variables. The girls from Ljubljana are more physically fit in comparison to girls from Belgrade despite there are negligible differences in body weight and BMI among them. Yet girls from both capitals have above-average cardiorespiratory fitness (20 m endurance shuttle-run) and lower-limb explosive strength (standing broad jump) compared to their counterparts from elsewhere in Europe (Ortega et al., 2011). Girls from Ljubljana scored around the 85th percentile of tests performance values, while Belgrade girls were in the 75th percentile in cardiorespiratory fitness and the 55th percentile in lower-limb explosive strength.

Faculty of Sport and Physical Education University of Belgrade Serbia

Faculty of Sport University of Ljubljana Slovenia

Tělesná zdatnost 12letých dívek v hlavních městech Srbska a Slovinska

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