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Abstract
The practice of regular physical activity produces improvements in cardiovascular and
respiratory function, reduces risk factors for coronary heart disease, decrease mortality and
morbidity. It is therefore important to promote healthy lifestyles, encouraging physical
activity and eating a balanced diet to combat health problems that plague our population.
Physical education plays an important role in instilling in young people early in the creation
of a healthy lifestyle through education's physical condition.
The program Fitnessgram is used in schools to assess the physical condition of students,
given the values of the Healthy Fitness Zone as an essential reference in the formative
evaluation process, based on the health and well-being.
The results that the students get on tests of physical condition of the Fitnessgram should not
be used to imply the academic ranking, but rather to highlight the process that guides the
education of physical condition, where the student develops skills that will help him
throughout his life.
Keywords: Physical Education; physical condition; Fitnessgram; assessment; health.