Does physical and health education classes improve physical fitness?
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Ronald Chow
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Drew Hollenberg
Abstract
Traditional continuous exercise, as well as low-volume high-intensity interval training in adults, have shown to offer benefits to one’s cardio-metabolic health. With the benefits of physical activity being proven without a doubt, education curricula around the world have implemented physical and health education programs with the aim of promoting a healthy lifestyle through physical activity and healthy habits. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether physical and health education, alone without any change, improved heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SP) and diastolic blood pressure (DP) of adolescents at Crescent School. HR, SP and DP of students were recorded before and immediately after they ran 1 mile, and statistical analyses were conducted to determine whether there was any difference in HR, SP and DP from baseline at the beginning of the year to Term 2, the middle of the school year. While mile-run times did improve from baseline to Term 2, SP, DP and HR did not significantly change from one term to another. This study does suggest that SP, DP and HR are not affected by physical and health education classes, but it is important to keep in mind that the sample group was already a very healthy and active group.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the faculty of Crescent School, namely Michael Brisbois, for their support in the deployment of the questionnaire and in the data collection. Additionally, we would like to thank all the Middle School students for participating in the study, and all the others who helped in the data collection, as well as Peter Vaisanen and Stephen Verzyden for facilitating the data collection.
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