Ninth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Regular physical activity is important for all children’s in schools.The objective of the present study to find out the effect of physical exercises for development of physical fitness among school children in India. It is hypothesized that there will be effects of physical activity for development of physical fitness among school children. The sample for the study consists of 40 school children of grades 9 and 10 between the age group of 13 to 15 years; 20 children are the experimental group and 20 are the control group. Physical activities such as running, jumping, throwing and playing sports and games were given to experimental group apart from regular physical education classes of calisthenic exercises for 8 weeks. On alternate days per week the control group attended general physical education class on alternate days but no special training were given to improve the physical fitness. Pre Test and Post Test were conducted in the physical fitness items such as 30 M run, standing broad jump, sit ups, shuttle run and 600 M run. The results of the study show, due to the physical activity programme, the school students experimental group improved a lot in the physical fitness in physical tests compare to control group.