Impact of Fitness Applications on Level of Physical Activity And Body Composition Among Students
Abstract
The physical activity level (PAL) is a way to express a person's daily physical activity as a number and is used to estimate a person's total energy expenditure. Body composition is the proportion of fat and non-fat mass in your body. The purpose of this study is to find the effect of fitness apps on the level of physical activity and body Composition among students from Savitribai Phule Pune University. This study was carried out on 100 students 50 in the control and 50 in the experimental group. Data were collected by using the Physical activity index questionnaire and body composition excel sheet formula in the form of google Form. Analysis of data was Quantitative, independent sample t-test was computed to find the effect of the Use of fitness app on level of physical activity and body composition among students of Savitribai Phule Pune University. In the case of Level of Physical Activity, the calculated t value is 1.775 which is not significant at 0.05 level of significance. (P=0.080) similarly, for Body composition, the calculated t value is 1.973 which is not significant at 0.05 level of significance (P=0.54). All the statistical analysis was done by SPSS version 19. The findings of this study indicated that there is no significant effect of fitness apps on the level of physical activity and body composition among students.
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