PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS AND THEIR BODY MASS INDEX
Journal Title: Antropomotoryka. Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences - Year 2007, Vol 17, Issue 40
Abstract
[b]The aim of the research.[/b] The objective of undertaken research was to determine the dependency between various kinds of PA and students’ body mass expressed by BMI. [b]Methods.[/b] The research was conducted on 2465 people, including 908 men and 1557 women who attended regular studies at the University of Bydgoszcz (UB). PA was assessed by means of a questionnaire form. In order to assess correct body mass, its indicator BMI was used.[b]The results. [/b]The research showed that different types of physical activity (with the exclusion of obligatory PA) statistically differentiate substantially slim teenagers and those overweight or obese. Percentage of overweight or obese students who do not exercise at all in their leisure time was 57% and slim students, on the other hand, only 14%. Similar result was obtained in the examination of intensive PA. In the case of regular PA, however, 61% and 16% respectively. High level of total PA concerned 73% of slim students and 46% of overweight students; communicative PA, on the other hand, 22% and 16%.[b]Conclusions.[/b] Body mass expressed by BMI is influenced by different types of PA (including total, communicative, intensive, regular, and any other PA in leisure time). It, therefore, proves a well-known postulate that it is necessary to increase PA to prevent the phenomenon of overweight and obesity, growing within Polish society. The most effective is regular and intensive physical activity. In the face of students’ lifestyle which involves too much sitting, their obligatory PA (physical education), conducted once a week, has no effect whatsoever in respect to holding the correct body mass (variation analysis ANOVA).
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Alicja Kostencka , Józef Drabik
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