Tracking System Analysis of Physical Resource

- Regarding Tracking of Motor Fitness -

Abstract

　Many companies today place importance on managing the health and productivity their employees. The physical fitness of adults is reported to be greatly affected by their physical activity in early childhood. In this study we established a tracking system evaluation for motor fitness, one type of physical resource. We then analyzed the motor fitness tracking system in schoolchildren over time with the aim of investigating the likelihood of company employees attaining physical fitness and exploring approaches to health management. Cohorts were established with motor fitness data published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the wavelet interpolation model was applied to the mean values, mean values ±0.5 SD, and mean values ±1.5 SD from the first to sixth grades of elementary school. A chart to evaluate physical fitness with age was then established. Individual longitudinal motor fitness data from the first to sixth grades of elementary school were applied to that evaluation chart and tracking of more than 70% was confirmed for nearly all items. In almost all children, motor fitness in the first year of elementary school was found to continue to the sixth grade. This suggests that motor fitness evaluations in childhood follow an unchanging trend, and analogously it may be possible to estimate adult motor fitness.