Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

The purpose of study is twofold. The first question we ask is how sport interests vary across gender, age and location. The second question is what is the difference between women and men in terms of the most preferred exercise type. A voluntary sample is made up of 62 men and 262 women. Participants who studied in Nottingham Trent University are in age from 18 to 30. Two alternative locations were presented to them to reply where they live including a metropolitan and a rural community. The variance analyses show that sport interest changes significantly across gender - not for individuals of different ages and living in different locations.According to the regression analysis results, gender has significant influence on sport interest, but age and location have no such effect. Men have more sport interest than women. The most preferred exercise type by men are gym training, football, and jogging and by women, gym, jogging, and swimming. Out of male participants, there is no one taking part in cheerleading, club dancing, dodge ball, gymnastics, lacrosse or netball. The sport the women don’t prefer is cricket. The preferred rate of the yoga, fitness and hiking by women is sharply higher than by men. As for exercise data, men are very interested in almost all the data except for body temprature and respiration rate. Women’s interest towards exercise data differs from men related to distance, calories burned, heart rate, speed, pace, steps, altitude, and ascent and decent.