Schoolchildren attitudes towards bodybuilding

Object: secondary schoolchildren school (year 5-6) and high school schoolchildren (year 10-11) attitudes towards bodybuilding. Substantiation of a problem: sports activities are of a man many moral principles. During adolescence, most vividly seen is the new mature personality, formed worldview, moral beliefs, ideals, assessment solutions that person starts to follow. According Grigaitės B. (2006), one period of adolescence are becoming interested in themselves, their inner world, there is a need to measure yourself and compare with others. In this way, in this age of maturity, there is a strong tendency of the body resulting from the cult of beauty. While bodybuilding does not focus on just the outer beauty, and draws attention to the human internal and external harmony, but here a little differently than most sports, the results are visible educated athlete's body, but not the results tables. Thus, the assessment of adolescents trained more outer beauty body image should take an active role to promote sports activities. Therefore, this study aimed to find out, and students' views on bodybuilding. Goal: To reveal schoolchildren (year 5-6) attitude towards bodybuilding. Objectives: 1. To ascertain and compare attitude towards bodybuilding of students year 5-6 to schoolchildren year 10-11. 2. To ascertain and compare knowledge of bodybuilding of schoolchildren year 5-6 to scoolchildren year 10-11. 3. To ascertain and compare knowledge physical activity levels of schoolchildren year 5-6 to schoolchildren year 10-11. 4. To ascertain and compare parents’ impact schoolchildren year 5-6 and scoolchildren year 10-11 attitude towards physical activity. Hyptohesis: 1. 5-6 classes schoolchildren approach to bodybuilding is harmful are over 10-11 grade students. 2. 5-6 grade schoolchildren are more physically active than the 10-11 grade students. Conclusions 1. Attitude towards bodybuilding of schoolchildren year 5-6 differed from their counterparts in year 10-11. Bodybuilding was not classified amongst the most popular sports by schoolchildren year 5-6 nor students year 10-11, however senior schoolchildren showed more willingness to engage to bodybuilding. 2. Year 5-6 scoolchildren demonstrated significantly worse knowledge of bodybuilding compared to schoolchildren year 10-11. Majority of senior and only a one third of junior schoolchildren know what actually bodybuilding is, what the main exercises are and have a relative body image of a person engaged in bodybuilding. 3. Physical activity levels were found to be insufficient amongst year 5-6 students as well as seniors. Despite that senior schoolchildren were more interested in sports. Nevertheless there were no significant differences amongst two group physical activity levels. Major reason of low physical activity was found to be laziness as well as lack of peer support. 4. Schoolchildren year 5-6 were found to be more frequently encouraged to engage to any form of physical activity compared to their senior counterparts. Physical activity of parents of both schoolchildren groups was found to be insufficient. It is to say that more than a half of parents of schoolchildren of both groups reported to be living physically active lives