Hunan Yueyang City Elderly Sports Fitness Present Situation Investigation And Countermeasure Research

The number of senior citizens in Yueyang City is about to be one million andthe aging of population will rise to18.86%. Such a phenomenon will certainly havea great impact on the economy and society of Yueyang. By adopting methods ofliterature review, the field investigation, questionnaire, expert interviews, andmathematical statistics, etc, the author of this thesis tries to analyze the populationcharacteristic, fitness behavior and awareness of the senior citizens and make asurvey of600senior citizens who are over60in the Yueyang Lou District, JunshanDistrict and Yunxi District so as to find out the current fitness situation of the seniorcitizens and expose the major problems. Thus, good suggestions can be providedboth for management organizations and senior citizens in the urban area of YueyangCity.Major Findings:1. Generally speaking, the participation rate for physical fitness of the senior citizensis optimistic in the urban area of Yueyang City.2. Senior citizens who take part in exercise have the following characteristics: thefemale being in majority, relatively younger senior citizens being in majority, loweducational level, living without their children’s company, poor health condition.3. The number of Senior citizens who insist on “fitting exercise”(Excising3times aweek and30minutes each time, the highest heart rate during the process of exercisesbeing60%-70%) falling down with the increase of the age. Senior citizens who arebetter educated exercise more. Senior citizens who have high monthly incomeexercise more but with low exercise intensity.4. The time that the senior citizens in the urban area of Yueyang City choose toexercise is mainly in the morning. In fact, ideal time for exercise is at dusk. However,there are few senior citizens choose to exercise at this time.5. There are various kinds of exercises that senior citizens take part in. And the majorone for them is aerobics with low intensity. As for their choice of fitness, the male tend to choose the competitive events, while the female tend to choose dances thatcan show and build their beautiful figure.6. The senior citizens tend to choose spacious and fee-free places in theneighborhood. Their activities are usually non-organized instead of being organizedby the communities that they live in.7. The standard of consumption on physical fitness for senior citizens in the urbanarea of Yueyang City is low. They tend to pay for the material object.8. The major limitations for senior citizens`fitness in the urban area of Yueyang Cityare the low awareness of fitness and lack of places, facilities and professionalinstructions.9. Senior citizens in the urban area of Yueyang City haven’t recognized theimportance of fitness as well as The Nationwide Body-building Plan. There arevarious kinds of motivations that make senior citizens to exercise.10. The contents of physical fitness are mostly taught by friends and colleagues ofsenior citizens instead of the instructors. As a matter of fact, the number ofinstructors in the urban area of Yueyang City is small. What’s worse, theirprofessional knowledge is limited. Thus, senior citizens lack scientific instructionand reduce the pertinence and effect in the process of physical fitness.11. The urban area of Yueyang City is in badly short of exercising places andfacilities for senior citizens. The existing facilities are too old and in poormanagement.12. Senior citizens in the urban area of Yueyang City are satisfied with their fitnesseffect and their family are in favor of their physical fitness.Considering the current situation and characteristics of physical fitness of thesenior citizens, following suggestions are put forward:1. Improve the medical supervision and health measurement in the community.2. Increase propagandizing and awareness of fitness.3. Raise invests on facilities so as to provide necessary assurance on the materialaspects.4. Provide more instructions for senior citizens and increase the number of physical instructors.5. Hold competitive activities to promote the fitness motivation of senior citizens.