(Kenyatta University, 1997) Kinoti, J. W.; Njororai, W. W. S.; Kiganjo, G. M.; Asembo, J. M.
Physical education has been compulsory and examinable in Kenya's
teacher education colleges at diploma level since 1980. The programme is
basically geared to maintain and improve the bodily health and fitness of
the learners. This study therefore, aimed at establishing the health-related
fitness levels of the teacher trainees before and after an eight-week
physical education programme. The sample comprised 40 first year, 40
second year and 40 third year students equally split between men and
women. The variables monitored were body composition, flexibility,
muscular endurance, and cardiorespiratory endurance. Preliminary
findings showed that some general improvements in the health status of
the learners were noted. It is recommended that physical education be
encouraged in all learning institutions for the purposes of enhancing the
learners' health status