Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the comparison of physical fitness and leg extension power, between Japanese and Korean.
Two hundred and fifty five healthy (69 men and 186 women, aged 30-69 years) residents of Tokyo, three hundred and three healthy (86 men and 217 women, aged 30-69 years) residents of Seoul, participated in this study.
All participant performed the test included measuring height, weight, BMI (body mass index), % fat, PWC75%HR max and leg extension power.
As a result, the Korean participants showed relatively lower values of leg extension power (watt/kg) than that of Japanese subjects (p<0.01). Although Japanese showed the tendency for height and weight to decrease, Korean showed the tendency which weight increases with increasing aging.
These results suggest that the difference of physical fitness level was factor of different economy, culture and life style in aging.
