RT Journal Article
T1 Knowledge and practice of stretching by university students.
A1 Merino-Marban, Rafael
A1 Aguilar-Reguero, José Luis
A1 Smuka, Ingrida
A1 Mayorga-Vega, Daniel
K1 Educación física
AB Flexibility is a somewhat complicated concept to define due to the large number of terms and components itencompasses and there are many stretching techniques we can use. However, the knowledge that universitystudents of Physical Education have, according to previous studies, is often very scarce. The purpose of thisstudy was to obtain information about flexibility and the practical application of stretching techniques possessedby students at the Latvian Academy of Sports Education in Riga, Latvia. A sample of 159 volunteer studentsparticipated in the present study, (male n = 83; female n = 76) from four courses and the first year of Master'sdegree in Physical Education (age 21.51 ± 2.40 years). The students completed the survey consisting of 14questions related to their knowledge of stretching techniques and part of the training session in which theyperform stretching. The knowledge and use of stretching techniques was low for both university and Master´sstudents, but the third-year students had more knowledge (1.87 ± 0.672 vs. 0.84 ± 0.569). Most of theparticipants do not usually have dedicated stretching sessions and if they do, they are rare (0.20 ± 0.659). Mostparticipants tend to stretch during both warm-up and cool-down. The knowledge of university students aboutflexibility and stretching is insufficient. In conclusion, we agree that the use of stretching by university studentsduring their training sessions is low. It would be advisable to implement intervention programmes and sessionsdedicated solely to the development of this physical quality at the school and/or university.
PB Editura Universitatea din Pitesti
YR 2023
FD 2023-09-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29761
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29761
LA eng
NO Aguilar-Reguero, J.L., Smuka, I., Mayorga-Vega, D. & Merino-Marban, R. (2023).  Knowledge and practice of stretching by university students.  Journal of Physical Education and Sport (JPES), 23(9), 2329 – 2335. online ISSN: 2247 - 806X; p-ISSN: 2247 – 8051; ISSN - L = 2247 – 8051
NO Política de acceso abierto de la revista: https://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/jpes/open
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026