Studies on the Physical Fitness of Farmers
10.2185/jjrm.30.773
- VernacularTitle:農民の体力に関する研究
- Author:
Tadashi Wada
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1981;30(4):773-781
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
A questionnaring was conducted on farmers in Akita Prefecture who went in for sports in the intervals of farming. Notably one group of farmers who answered that they took regular exercise showed the following results:
1. The self-consciousness of being healthy and having good physical fitness is by far more intense in this group than in the groups of farmers who took irregular or occasional excercises.
2. The chief reasons why they continued to practice sports were:
a. that they had developed closer friendship among them through sporting activities.
b. that they obtained a good understanding and cooperation from the rest of the family members.
c. that they had leisure time.
3. To find time for sports they saved, above all else, their farming hours, indoor leisure time and homekeeping hours.
4. General endurance, agility and balance were the top three qualities of physical fitness that the greatest number of the farmers referred to as essential to modern farming. Further inquiry will be required into sports which might help to develop these qualities.
