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Recently the increasing interest in adult obesity has been accompanied by increasing interest in obesity among elementary school students across the society. Infact, the growth trend of obesity rate among elementary school children is increasingly becoming one of the socia lissues. Obesity among elementary school children is very serious and has many adverse effects not only because of obesity itself but also because of the possibility for psychological, emotional and social problems including maladaptation to schoollife, learning disorder, sense of physical in feriority, and emotional disorder, adult obesity later in life, and all kinds of internal diseases. Notwithstanding the problems of obesity, practical programs to prevent and manage obesity are only run by hospitals and sports centers that can afford to invest economic expenses and much time. Considering that school is where elementary schoolchildren spend the most time except for home and equipped with the facilities and teachers required for physical education, it seems efficient and economical torun obesity prevention and management programs in school. Thus this study se out to apply a gymnastics program and test if it would be effective for preventing obesity among elementary school children and increasing their physical strength. The following hypotheses were set to examine if there would be any difference in the degree of obesity and health-related physical strength of elementary school children before and after the application of a gymnastics program