Minimum muscular fitness in school children

Two hundred and fifty school boys from Lonavla were randomly selected and tested with Kraus-Weber tests for their minimum muscular fitness. The results revealed that 20.8 per cent boys failed in the tests. Multiple failures were 4.8 percent while flexibility failures alone were 11.6 percent. Boys at the age of 15 years failed more in flexibility test. Boys at the age of 10 years had the maximum percentage of failures to the extent of 38.5. Inclusion of Yogasanas in the programme of physical activities of the school is suggested for the improvement of the status of the failures.