young population; fitness; physical activity; life style; anthropometry; Czech republic

The group of 719 boys and girls aged 15 to 19 years was testing.Anthropometric meansurement included basic body parameters and body meansures using the method of 10 skin folds.A detailed anamnestic questionnaire on physical activity,lifestyle and personal and family anamneses of the students was used.Continual bicycling stress exercise testing up to maximum "symptome limited" was used.The results were compared with the results of the control group-the similar sample of the young population of the Czechoslovak republic (Seliger and Bartůněk,1977) and 5th Nation-wide Anthropological Survey of Children and Adolescents 1991 (Lhotská et al.,1993).For analyses of the differences between tested and control group the unpaired Student's t-test was used.

The group of 719 boys and girls aged 15 to 19 years was testing.Anthropometric meansurement included basic body parameters and body meansures using the method of 10 skin folds.A detailed anamnestic questionnaire on physical activity,lifestyle and personal and family anamneses of the students was used.Continual bicycling stress exercise testing up to maximum "symptome limited" was used.The results were compared with the results of the control group-the similar sample of the young population of the Czechoslovak republic (Seliger and Bartůněk,1977) and 5th Nation-wide Anthropological Survey of Children and Adolescents 1991 (Lhotská et al.,1993).For analyses of the differences between tested and control group the unpaired Student's t-test was used.