Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: August | Volume: 6 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 415-423
Effect of Application of Fitness App on Fitness of Physical Activity among Sedentary People from Barrackpore City in West Bengal
Dr. Mahesh Deshpande1, Md Lokman Saikh2
1Assistant Professor, 2M.Phil Student,
Chandrashekhar Agashe College of Physical Education (Savitribai Phule Pune University), Gultekdi, Pune, Maharashtra 711037 India
Corresponding Author: Dr. Mahesh Deshpande
ABSTRACT
This research aimed at studying the effect of Google fit app on the Fitness of sedentary peoples and to compare the pre-test and post-test scores of the subjects participating in the experimental study. A group of 20 sedentary peoples were selected from the Barrackpore City W.B. West Bengal where the city was selected using non-probable sampling technique and the subjects were selected by applying snowball sampling method. Three fitness tests were conducted pre and post fitness app programme for 14thweeks. Descriptive analysis was done for fitness variables viz cardiovascular endurance, speeds and body composition. To determine the difference between pre-test and post-test, paired sample‘t’ test, was used. There was a positive effect found between pre-test and post-test. There was significant effect found in all most all variables tested. It was also found that subject’s physical fitness parameters improved with the help of physical activity programme using fitness app.
Key words: Fitness app programme, Fitness, Involvement, Beep test, Cardiovascular Endurance, Experiment, Snowball sampling.
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