Fitness Status in Subjects with Intellectual Disabilities – A Comparative Study

AbstractThis paper aims at emphasizing the level of some fitness components and subjects’ deficient areas requiring a specific training, as well as identifying the results trend between the 2006 and 2009 assessments, in athletes with intellectual disabilities (ID). The Fun Fitness battery test used in this study is acknowledged by kinetotherapists and by specialists in adapted physical activities.As more training periods and competitions are available for the athletes, we should have expected a significant improvement in 2009 as compared to 2006 in all the tested components, but except for the strength, results don’t emphasize a unitary progress trend