| Keywords |
Obesity; Physical activity; Health-related physical fitness |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to define the relationship between obesity, physical activity, health-related variables, and figure out physical activity and health-related fitness of college students by obesity. To achieve this goal, 77 students (45 males and 32 females) at a University in Gyeongsang Province were selected as the study subject by convenience sampling method. As the variables, obesity (BMI), subjective physical activity, health-related physical fitness (muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, cardiorespiratory endurance) were measured. As the analysis method, descriptive statistics and independent t-test were used to analyze the general characteristics of the gender of subjects.
Descriptive statistics and 2-way ANOVA were used to analyze the characteristics of physical activity and health-related physical fitness by gender and obesity. Pearson's correlation was used to examine the relationship between obesity and physical activity and health-related fitness. As a result of examining physical activity and health-related physical fitness of college students by obesity, male college students showed higher physical activity and physical fitness than female college students in general, and the college students in the low weight-normal group spent longer time in moderate and vigorous intensity physical activity and showed higher muscle endurance and cardiorespiratory endurance than the overweight-obesity group. In other words, the more physical activity they do and the better physical fitness they have, the lower obesity they have. This result suggests that improvement of physical fitness through physical activity may play an important role in prevention of obesity. |