The Effect of Aerobic Exercises on Students’ Physical Fitness
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.210130.037How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Aerobic, Aerobic exercise, physical fitness
- Abstract
Physical fitness is one of the problems which have something to do with health issues experienced by many people including university students. Students with a good physical fitness will have good health condition which enables them to do their daily activities without experiencing major fatigue. One method which can be done to improve physical fitness is aerobic exercise. Thus, this quasi-experiment study aimed to figure out the effect of aerobic exercise on students’ physical fitness. The sample of this study was 84 students male students selected through purposive sampling method from a population of all students in Sports Science Faculty Universitas Negeri Padang. One Group Pre-test Post-test design was employed in this study. Pre-test was conducted prior to a-24 sessions (8 weeks) of 30 – 60 minutes for each aerobic exercise scheduled for three times a week. After this session, students were required to take the post-test. The result of this study showed that aerobic exercise was proven to improve students’ physical fitness significantly. This was indicated by the result of data analysis with t-test where tcalculated > ttable = 1.364 so that it can be concluded that there is a significant impact of a 24-session aerobic exercise on students’ physical fitness.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Apri Agus AU - Sepriadi AU - Fahd Mukhtarsyah PY - 2021 DA - 2021/02/01 TI - The Effect of Aerobic Exercises on Students’ Physical Fitness BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sport Sciences, Health and Tourism (ICSSHT 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 182 EP - 186 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.210130.037 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.210130.037 ID - Agus2021 ER -