The Role of outdoor Eduation Activities in Defining a Healthy Lifestyle

Abstract

The purpose of this research is the influence of outdoor education activities on young people’s somatic and functional parameters. These activities represent a functional and action wise approach for developing the personality of youngsters. The main objective is opening a new young educational perspective by promoting a new and interactive educational tackling that is implementing certain projects of outdoor education activities. The target group consisted of 30 students (girls) from the Physical Education and Mountainous Sports Faculty from Braşov. For gathering certain data regarding the measured morphological and functional indicators we have used the following indicators: height, weight, body mass index, abdominal parameter, the Ruffier test, the cardiac frequency and the adipose tissue. The final conclusion is that the outdoor education activities have had a positive influence on the organism’s systems and structures and implicitly on one’s lifestyle, crediting better social life integration to what the subjects are concerned.