The Effect of Sport Activity on the Elderly Health-Related Physical Fitness

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.052How to use a DOI?

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sport activity, health related physical fitness

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to measure health related physical fitness status of the elderly who were active in five kinds of sport; and to describe the difference of training effect of five kinds of sport on the elderly health related physical fitness status. The expost facto method was used for this study. Subjects who participated in the study were seventy-four elderlies, and their five respective sport health clubs situated in Bandung, including lawn tennis (12), walking (16), table tennis (13), gymnastic (15), and badminton (15). The instrument used was physical fitness test proposed by “the Centre for Study and Development of Sports Science and Technology Office of the State Minister for Youth and Sports”, consisting of general endurance (2,4 km walks), muscular endurance (push up and sit up), flexibility (sit and reach test), and strength (arms curl). SPSS 2014 was used for data analysis. The result of this study were: 1. The rank of general endurance status according to gain score was: badminton, lawn tennis, table tennis, gymnastics, walking; 2. The rank of Muscular endurance: lawn tennis, walking, gymnastics, table tennis, badminton; 3. The rank of strength: lawn tennis, walking, badminton, gymnastics, table tennis; 4. The rank of flexibility: gymnastics, tennis, badminton, table tennis, walking; 5. The rank of Body mass index: walking, gymnastics, badminton, table tennis, lawn tennis. Conclusions: The activities of five kinds of sport could give a good effect as an effort to increase the significant health related physical fitness, including the general endurance, muscular endurance, flexibility, strength, and body mass index; The activities of five kinds of sport give significant differences to increase health related physical fitness aspects.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nurlan Kusmaedi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/19
TI  - The Effect of Sport Activity on the Elderly Health-Related Physical Fitness
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 195
EP  - 198
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.052
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.052
ID  - Kusmaedi2020
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