The physical condition of students at Phan Ngoc Hien High School, Can Tho City, Vietnam

The physical fitness of high school students plays a fundamental role in their comprehensive development of intellect, spirit, and character. Excellent physical fitness helps enhance learning ability, boost immunity, form a healthy lifestyle, and lay the foundation for long-term training and development. The purpose of the research is to establish standards for assessing students' physical fitness status at Phan Ngoc Hien High School, Can Tho City, Vietnam. The research uses methods for synthesizing and analyzing documents, conducting interviews, and applying statistical methods to address the research topics. The research subjects include 200 students (100 male, 100 female) from the 11th grade at Phan Ngoc Hien High School, Can Tho City, Vietnam, and 26 administrators, specialists, and teachers with experience and expertise in the field of physical education. The study found six fitness tests for students at Phan Ngoc Hien High School in Can Tho City, Vietnam. These tests included the 30m sprint (seconds), handgrip strength (kg), standing long jump (cm), sit-ups in 30 seconds (reps), standing trunk flexion (cm), 4 x 10m shuttle run (seconds), and 5-minute endurance run (meters); Develop evaluation standards including: scoring scale, classification, comprehensive classification by gender. The evaluation results show that the physical fitness status of students at Phan Ngoc Hien High School, Can Tho City, Vietnam, is classified as: Good-Excellent (4.5%), average (66.5%), weak (29%); classified according to the standards of the Ministry of Education and Training: good (9%), satisfactory (74%), unsatisfactory (17%).