The Effect of Aerobic Exercises on Students’ Physical Fitness

Physical fitness is one of the problems which have something to do with health issues experienced by many people including university students.Students with a good physical fitness will have good health condition which enables them to do their daily activities without experiencing major fatigue.One method which can be done to improve physical fitness is aerobic exercise.Thus, this quasi-experiment study aimed to figure out the effect of aerobic exercise on students' physical fitness.The sample of this study was 84 students male students selected through purposive sampling method from a population of all students in Sports Science Faculty Universitas Negeri Padang.One Group Pre-test Post-test design was employed in this study.Pre-test was conducted prior to a-24 sessions (8 weeks) of 30 -60 minutes for each aerobic exercise scheduled for three times a week.After this session, students were required to take the post-test.The result of this study showed that aerobic exercise was proven to improve students' physical fitness significantly.This was indicated by the result of data analysis with t-test where t calculated > t table = 1.364 so that it can be concluded that there is a significant impact of a 24-session aerobic exercise on students' physical fitness.