The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between lifestyle and physical fitness of high school and university students. By means of questionnaire and physical fitness test, samples of lifestyle and fitness data were obtained from 5 groups: 65 high school male students who passed the entrance examination to H University, 198 freshmen in H University living with their family, 189 freshmen living alone, 64 sophomores living with their family, and 48 sophomores living alone. Furthermore, heart rates during daily activities in each 10 subjects among them were recorded continuously throughout day and night by using heart rate recorder.
As a result, university students, especially those who were living alone, showed such problems of living as keeping late hours without breakfast. However, such problems seem to have little influence on the physical fitness. University students had less daily physical activity than high school students had, because they could not compensate the reduction of their physical education hours. It is suggested that such a poor daily physical activity causes the stagnate fitness of the university students.
