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Educating Aerobic Exercise and Skill-Related Fitness of Athletes in University of Ilorin Bakinde, Surajudeen Tosho
Indonesian Journal of Multidiciplinary Research Vol 2, No 1 (2022): IJOMR: VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, 2022
Publisher : Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI)

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Fitness is regarded as having sound strength and endurance, which promotes a healthy mind. Exercise is repetitive bodily movements done to improve or maintain one or more of the components of fitness. Skill-related health concepts are the underlying skills that are needed in sports competition includes body balance, speed, agility, power, coordination, and reaction time. This study examined the influence of aerobic exercise on the physical related fitness of athletes in the University of Ilorin. The factors investigated are muscular power, agility, body balance, speed of athletes in the University of Ilorin. A descriptive research design of survey type was used for the study. The population of the study was 150 athletes in the University of Ilorin. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the entire 150 registered population by questionnaire. Frequency and percentage were used to analyze the demographic data of respondents and the four null hypotheses were tested using the inferential statistic of chi-square at 0.05 alpha level. The findings revealed that; aerobic exercise has a significant effect on the muscular power, agility, body balance, and speed of athletes in the University of Ilorin. Based on the findings, the study recommends that University of Ilorin athletes should engage in power explosive exercise with the help of the coaches to improve their muscular power, Athletes in the University of Ilorin should engage their players in the Illinois Agility run test to determine their agility level and engage in agility exercise to maintain and improve their agility fitness level.
EFFECT OF EXERCISE ON THE BODY COMPOSITION OF ADULTS IN MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES MINISTRY, ILORIN Bakinde, Surajudeen Tosho; Ruth, Adeyeni Adesewa
ASEAN Journal of Sport for Development and Peace Vol 2, No 1 (2022): Sports Advanced into Sport for Development and Peace: Challenges for Global Spor
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The manifestation of chronic cardiovascular diseases is increasing every day, especially among adults. This could result from an unhealthy lifestyle and some underlying health conditions associated with increased body fat. Therefore, the study was conducted to ascertain the effect of exercise on the body composition of adults in Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, Ilorin. The experimental research design of one group pretest-posttest was adopted for the study. The study population consisted of all religious leaders from Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Ilorin. Twenty (20) participants were selected for this study through the Systematic Sampling Technique. Consent of the participants was sorted, and health screening of the participants was conducted. FITT principle was followed for a duration of 8-weeks of exercise intervention. Standardized instruments (bioelectrical impedance analysis, non-elastic tape-rule, portable height-scale) were used to collect body composition parameters (% body fat, WHR, BMI). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages to describe their body composition.In contrast, inferential statistics of paired t-test was used to analyze the hypotheses formulated, adopting a p-value of 0.05 for statistical significance. The statistical package for social science (SPSS) software was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that a significant effect of exercise exists on the body mass index of adults in Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, Ilorin. This study, therefore, concluded that there is a strong interaction between the body composition of adults and their physical activity level. It was recommended that there should be a frequent orientation on the need to participate in regular exercise to the general public.