The master's thesis discusses aerobic endurance, which represents the functional ability of a person to perform a certain activity for a longer time without having to stop due to fatigue. In elementary school, we develop endurance with variously long and intense runs, hikes, cross-country skiing, swimming, etc. The importance of developing aerobic endurance at school was clearly shown during the COVID-19 epidemic. After returning to school, the results of the sports training card test showed Slovenian students declined in all areas of measurement, and aerobic endurance was the worst in the history of these measurements. This directly demonstrated the importance of carrying out endurance activities at school. The next indicator of importance is the planning of these activities. Therefore, in this master's thesis, qualitative research was used, which compared the aerobic endurance of third-grade students of two different schools with similar geographical characteristics, but with different curriculum. We tried to determine the importance of planning and performing aerobic activities. We included two schools, one Slovenian and one Austrian elementary school. We analyzed the documentation, conducted interviews and tested the students with the Beep test for measuring aerobic strength. The analysis of the documents showed that the Slovenian documentation is more extensive, more structured and more specific than the Austrian one. The Slovenian curriculum prescribes one hour of sports more per week than the Austrian one, and it also defines sports days and school camps, which were not included in Austria. Female teachers are unanimous in attributing great importance to movement and endurance, while they do not consider planning to be the most significant. Slovenian students scored almost 7 sub-levels more than Austrian students on the endurance test. The non-parametric Mann Whitney U test showed that the differences are statistically significant (U = 373.0, p = 0.028). Due to the small sample, the results cannot be generalized to the general population. We suggest that further research be focused on the comparison of the aerobic strength of children from neighboring countries, in which a larger number of children is included, these children are followed over a 3-month period and indirect factors that affect endurance are checked (additional exercise, weight and height of the child, etc.).
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