Author(s): Dr. Kishore J Maru

Abstract:
Current health issues like increase in Sedentary Lifestyle, Over Weight, Cardio vascular disease and obesity are serious concerns plaguing children. Intervention in the form of Quality Physical Education programs then is the need of the hour. Quality Physical Education programs would help change quality of life by changing the harmful habits and promoting healthy lifestyles. If we invest in Quality Physical Education programs today we would be saving ourselves health care costs in the future. The present study was conducted by adopting the Multiple Regression Analysis. The Research Designs of the present study was predicting new values for the dependent variable from the given independent variables (Predictive Modelling Technique). A sample of Two Hundred (n=200) School Students was selected from Aseema Charitable Trust Mumbai suburban. Independent Variable was Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, Cardiovascular Endurance, Flexibility and Sedentary Life Style and dependent variable was Health Risk. All five variables viz. Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, Cardiovascular Endurance, Flexibility and Sedentary Life Style of Secondary School Male Students jointly as well as individually contributed in Predicting Health Risk.

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