To determine between 65-75 years healthy people physical fitness level

The purpose of this study was to determine physical fitness of olders in 65- 75 ages. Subjects of the study were 535 males and 494 females of totaly 994 volunteers. They were healhty and had no limiting factors to experience the test protocol. Subjects were divided into three age groups as; 65-67 years, 68-71 years and 72-75 years. SFT (Senior Fitness Test) was applied to subjects to determine physical fitness levels. Test protocol consisted of six different tests; chair stand, arm curl, chair sit and reach, 2 minute step, 8 foot- up- and go, back scratch test. Heart rates of subjects were reported at rest and after immediately 2 minutes step test. Datas were analyzed via SPSS 1 1.0 for Windows Package Programme in One Way Anova Test, Tukey Test, Independent T- test, Paired T-test and Pearson Correlation Test. The significance levels were accepted as 0,05 and 0,01. The result of the study indicated that there were significant decreases in all parameters of both male and female subjects by aging. Males and females scores of the same ages were significantly different among all parameters except BMI and Chair Sit and reach on test at 0,01 significance level. Scores of males were superior to those of females except BMI and chair sit and reach on test. According to the results of Pearson Correlation Test, there was a significant relation among all parameters at P<0,01 and P<0,05 levels, except BMI and chair sit and reach test at P>0,05. In conclusion, the scores of physical fitness parameters decrease in males and females by aging. Scores of males were higher than those of females when the age was same except BMI and flexibility. In general, the physical fitness levels of olders in Turkey was found less than those other countries. The reason may be that the exercise trait was specially not adopted by olders in our society.