The present study emerges from a research whose general objective is to investigate the level
of physical fitness related to health (AFRS) of schoolchildren of a basic school in the city of
Ananindeua-PA, with the following specific objectives: to compare the components of
physical fitness related to health among the sexes and to identify the prevalence of
schoolchildren who meet the critical health values established by PROESP - Br, for physical
fitness related to health. It was a research developed in the qualitative-quantitative,
correlational, transverse and descriptive approach. The sample consisted of schoolchildren of
both sexes, aged between 11 and 16 years of age from a State school in the municipality of
Ananindeua - PA, of which 30 were female. Anthropometric, strength, endurance and
flexibility tests were performed based on the PROESP-Br instrument. The statistical treatment
used in the present study was composed of the descriptive analysis of the data. These data
were submitted to analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the means of the treatments were
compared by the complementary test of means of Turkey to 5%, using the program Statistica
7.0. For all statistical procedures a value of (p≤0.05) was adopted. The results made it
possible to conclude that: in the 14-year age group, boys present a significant difference (p ≤
0.05) higher in the general resistance variable than girls; abdominal strength / resistance in the
14-year age range, being higher in males and BMI in the age range of 12 and 13 years, with
females at both ages being higher than males. Regarding the critical health values of BMI,
healthy zone: all boys and 83% of girls and zone of risk: 16% of girls; general resistance,
healthy zone: 33% of both sexes and zone of risk: 66% of both sexes; flexibility, healthy
zone: all boys and 66% of girls and zone of risk: 33% of girls and general strength /
resistance, all are in the zone of risk. With the results found, it is important to perform
physical activity to improve levels of physical fitness related to the health of schoolchildren.
Therefore, intervention programs are suggested that aim at the health and quality of life of
these students, also pointing out the importance of Physical Education classes in relation to
the increase in their level of physical activity.
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