International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences Vol. 10(2), pp. 166 - 172
DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100205
Reprint (PDF) (307Kb)

University Students' Daily Activities and Physical Fitness during COVID-19 Pandemic

Nur Syahadati Retno Panenggak ^1,*, Nurhasan ¹, Muchamad Arif Al Ardha ^1,2, Panji Bana ¹, Kolektus Oky Ristanto ¹, Ainun Zulfikar Rizki ¹, Rizki Satrio Utomo ¹, Chung Bing Yang ², Wei Jhe Lin ^2
1 Sport Science Faculty, State University of Surabaya, Surabaya, 60213, East Java, Indonesia
² Hua Shih College of Education, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng Township, 974 Hualien County, Taiwan

ABSTRACT

This study aims to evaluate university students' daily activities and the effect of physical activity on physical fitness, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research used comparative and correlational research methods. Thirty research samples consisted of 13 junior year university students and 17 senior year university students were selected by the purposive sampling method. Every student was monitored for their daily activities for one week and categorized into sports, college, organization, and other activities. Physical fitness was measured using the MFT test to measure the VO₂Max in ml/kg/min units. The data analysis results showed no significant difference between junior and senior semester students in VO₂Max, physical exercise, organizational activities, lecture activities, sleeping, and other activities. There was a significant difference in VO₂Max and physical exercises (sig < 0.05) between genders. Male students spent more time exercising (17.87 ± 11.1) than female students (10.80 ± 6.04). Furthermore, male students had a higher average VO₂Max (42.38 ± 7.53) than female students (29.36 ± 6.07). Based on the regression analysis results, there is a significant value between physical exercises and sleeping toward VO₂Max capacity (sig. < 0.05).

KEYWORDS
Physical Fitness, Higher Education, Physical Activities

Cite This Paper in IEEE or APA Citation Styles
(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Nur Syahadati Retno Panenggak , Nurhasan , Muchamad Arif Al Ardha , Panji Bana , Kolektus Oky Ristanto , Ainun Zulfikar Rizki , Rizki Satrio Utomo , Chung Bing Yang , Wei Jhe Lin , "University Students' Daily Activities and Physical Fitness during COVID-19 Pandemic," International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 166 - 172, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100205.

(b). APA Format:
Nur Syahadati Retno Panenggak , Nurhasan , Muchamad Arif Al Ardha , Panji Bana , Kolektus Oky Ristanto , Ainun Zulfikar Rizki , Rizki Satrio Utomo , Chung Bing Yang , Wei Jhe Lin (2022). University Students' Daily Activities and Physical Fitness during COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences, 10(2), 166 - 172. DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100205.