EFFECT OF EXERCISE ENVIRONMENT ON ENJOYMENT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

 Mr. Rakesh Kumar Yadav and Mr. Narendra Gangwar

Abstract

The study was undertaken with the purpose of investigating the effect of performing physical activity on level of enjoyment of the participants. 20 volunteers from LNIPE Gwalior participated in the study. The participants underwent the physical activity training program in two different conditions – 1) in constant environment conditions (CEC) 2) different environment conditions (DEC). The subjects jogged for 30 minutes at a pace of 200m per minute and performed various exercises at the interval of every 2 minutes. Same subjects underwent the two conditions and the control in the various exercises was exercised by fixing the number of repetitions or duration of exercises. The enjoyment level among the participants was analyzed by administering the physical activity enjoyment scale. For comparing the means of the two groups dependent t statistic was used. The mean and standard deviation of two groups were CEC- 71.35±10.98 and DEC- 82.25± 13.23 respectively. The results of the study revealed that there is a significant difference between the enjoyment levels of two groups. It was concluded that if the physical activity is performed in changing surroundings, then it might help the participants to enjoy the activity better as compared to constant environmental conditions. 

Keywords: Surrounding, Exercise, Health and Fitness.