Research On Current Situation And Influencing Factors Of Middle School Students’ Physical Exercise In Xi’an

The physical health level of high school students is an important criterion for measuring the health qualities of the Chinese nation, but also concerns the quality of education in our country. With the implementation of the nationwide fitness program, school physical exercise at all levels has become an important part of school life. It is also an important guarantee for training student’s physical ability, completing the physical tasks and developing lifelong physical exercise habits. According to the Fifth National Middle School Physical Health survey report, middle school students’ physical conditions continue to decline during the past 20 years. The health of middle school students is facing an unprecedented challenge. In order to improve the physical health status of the majority of middle school students, the State Council issued Views on the strengthening youth physical conditions, which suggests to extensively carry out "Sunshine sports for hundreds of millions of students", encouraging the students walk out from the classroom to the playground, to nature, to enjoy the sunshine, to form the habit of doing physical exercise, to ensure that the students can exercise one hour each day, and at least three extra-curricular physical exercises each week. This fully shows that the government pays great attention to students’ physical health status. However, for those physical educators, physical exercise involves a wide range of difficult work, and several relations need to coordinate and rationalize, otherwise it will seriously affect and hinder students’ physical exercise.This paper adopts several research methods, such as documentary analysis, interviewing, questionnaire survey and mathematical statistics. In Xi’an several middle schools, there are 2023 students accepting questionnaire survey. Through the survey and interviewing, by statistic and analysis, the following conclusions can be drawn:1. during the break or after the class, there are very few students can actively engage in physical exercise. Only in vacation, some students may actively engage in physical exercise. But even in vacation, many students never engage in any physical exercise. The main reason of the above phenomenon is that almost half of the students spend more than 4 hours studying every day even on vacations.2. It can be seen from the survey that some school do not have exercise and activity between classes, depriving students of the opportunity to participate in physical exercise at school.3. When students participate in extracurricular sports or physical exercise, they still follow the methods taught in school, seldom guided by professionals. There are exercise and sports-related billboards in school or community, the source of physical exercise knowledge is not enough.4. When students participate in physical exercise, they tend to keep companies which mostly are friends, classmate and parents, yet parents are always busy with their work, hence to influence students’participation in physical exercise.5. In the survey, most of the students think that the venue equipment of school facilities and other hardware conditions can’t meet their demand for physical exercise.6. Schools do not pay enough attention to physical exercise, and extra-curricular sports activities time is often occupied. The head teacher of the class also does not value physical exercise enough.7. Middle school students do not have a strong interest for physical exercise and don’t have a clear understanding about its importance. Even if some students know its importance, yet they have time to exercise.8. There is no social guidance for the importance and necessity of physical exercise, teachers and parents are all blindly pursuit of general knowledge courses, but ignoring physical exercise’s role in health.