The importance of sports in the social adaptation The level of some physical qualities (flexibility and perseverance) and their relationship to the variables of Age and practice. A Field study on a group of bodybuilders in the sports hall in Boumerdes

Abstract

 This study aimed to determine the level of endurance and flexibility among bodybuilders and to examine the extent of their relationship with the variables of age and training duration. A sample of 15 bodybuilders from Boumerdes Province was selected. Three tests were administered: the Luc Léger endurance test, the sit-and-reach test for flexibility, and the back scratch test to assess shoulder flexibility.

The results showed that flexibility is directly related to both age and duration of training. Flexibility tends to decrease with increasing age except in certain special cases whereas it improves as the duration of training increases.