PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FOOTBALL IN THE OLDER ADULT

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to determine how football affects the health of the professors of the senior club of San Marcos National University. It is important to realize that physical activities like football can contribute significantly to a person's lifestyle and health. The research is at an applicative level; it was carried out in a set of activities using the fundamental theoretical concepts of recreational physical activities in the realization of football, looking for how this activity influences health fitness, the population was made up of adults between 50 and 83 years old who perish when football club of teachers who have practice days on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., the type of investigation was causal, under a non-experimental field design. Through non-probability sampling, a sample of 60 adults from the studied club was chosen. Whose physical fitness and health were measured by the Test. Senior Fitness Test (SFT) The battery designed by Rikli and Jones; a questionnaire was also applied throughout the survey. By way of conclusion, it can be determined that the level of influence of recreational activities through football on the health of older teachers of the UNMSM is known.