| Keywords |
Cycling commuting ; Fitness ; Physique ; Middle school student |
| Abstract |
This study was to research the actual condition of middle school students' cycling commuting and the comparison of the physique and fitness according to the commuting way. For this purpose, 316 second grade male students participated in this research. For the statistic results, we used one way ANOVA. The results were followed as below : First, among the 316 boys 144 boys (45.6%) commuted by walking, while 64 boys (20.3%) by cycling to school. Second, 116 students (46%) among the 252 students that didn't commute by cycling to school hoped to commute to school by cycling in future. Third, on the opinion for the improvement of cycling commuting, 56 students who was commuting by cycling wished for the anti-theft counterplan and the improvement of cycle shed, while bike-lane were hoped to be improved by the other 8 students. Forth, 36 boys among the students who didn't commute by bicycle but hoped in future wished the improvement of bicycle shed and 28 students hoped for the betterment of bicycle lane. Fifth, there was no significant difference in weight, height and BMI according to the commuting way (p>.05), but the tendency was showed that students' physique by walking might be better than others. Sixth, there were the tendencies that the records of 50 m rush and long distance run by cycling commuting might be better but the results were not significant (p>.05). With these results, there might be no positive effect on the physique and fitness by cycling commuting. Even though there was no significant effect, we could expect the development of endurance and muscular power on lower body by cycling commuting within long time participation. |