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The purpose of this study is to analyze changes of basal physical fitness and blood pressure by sex and age bracket and provide the preliminary data for promotion of health by figuring out and comparing the actual conditions of the elderly basal physical fitness over age 65 which is not grasped currently. Following are the results from measuring physique, physical fitness and blood pressure of the elderly people over age 60. First, it found differences in height, weight and body fat percentage of male and female elderly people. The male muscular strength and muscular endurance were higher while flexibility was higher in female. On the other hand, there was no differences in balance and cardiorespiratory endurance. The male retrogression of factors about physical fitness is faster than female and it has been a rapid decline due to lack of continuous ability to maintain factors. That's why elderly women has a longer lifespan than elderly men on an average. Second, the difference in height and weight between sixties and seventies is negligible while they rapidly decrease in eighties and beyond except for body fat percentage. There was small difference in muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and cardiorespiratory endurance but the elderly people over eighties is less capable of them. But balance was shown to decrease over seventies. It means that the first thing to degenerate is sense of balance and therefore solution to overcome it is needed. Third, blood pressure factor by age bracket was shown to a have difference in DBF(diastolic blood pressure). This is applied to the fact that aerobic exercise in elderly people is key factor of health