Gender Analysis of Health Related Fitness Profile in College Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.38How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Health Related Fitness, College, student, gender
- Abstract
Every student must have good fitness in order to be able to conduct an academic activities and their daily life. Good fitness can support student activities which ultimately improve their performance. The purpose of this research is to examine the differences of health related fitness of college student based on gender. The researchers used comparative method and Analyzed with independent sample t-test (significance at .05) to inference the result. Research instrument using Fitnessgram by Cooper Institute to collect the data of health related fitness included BMI, body fat percentage, flexibility, strength (upper body & core body), and Vo2Max. Research sample as much as 300 college students, both of female and male are Voluntary participated. Results showed that there are significance differences between female and male in Body fat percentage, Strength (upper & core body), and Vo2max. Males are higher than females on four item of health related fitness above, however, there are no differences on BMI and flexibility of students based on gender. Subsequent research is recommended to measure skill related fitness variables or implementation of fitness programs to increase HRF.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- 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 - Nur Indri Rahayu AU - Adang Suherman AU - Kuston Sultoni PY - 2019/08 DA - 2019/08 TI - Gender Analysis of Health Related Fitness Profile in College Students BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Social Sciences and Humanities (ICESSHum 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 234 EP - 238 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.38 DO - 10.2991/icesshum-19.2019.38 ID - Rahayu2019/08 ER -