Development of smartphone application for personalized physical fitness education for university students in COVID-19 pandemic era
Adang Suherman, Kuston Sultoni, Jajat

Faculty of Health and Physical Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) are one of the ways that the government has implemented in preventing the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia. However, this policy can cause new problems, one of which is physical inactivity. Lack of physical activity is closely related to the spread of non-communicable diseases, which are in fact the highest cause of death in the world and include co-deaths in COVID-19 patients. One of the community groups affected by the PSBB policy is students who have to carry out learning activities at home. As an age group with a transition period, students have a tendency to decrease in physical activity. Therefore, a technology is needed that can help students to keep doing physical activity during a pandemic. Many platforms and technologies are offered to this age group, such as aerobic exercise guides in the form of gymnastics, zumba, yoga, tabata and other similar videos on youtube. However, guidance alone is not enough, because the principle of exercise requires one to know the initial conditions before training so that the training program can effectively improve the physical fitness of students. Therefore, the aim of this research is to create an android application (mobile apps) to measure and provide guidance for independent physical fitness development programs for students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The advantages of this fit student android application are as a guide to measuring physical fitness that can be done by students themselves and based on existing literature. Physical fitness test items guided through this application are health-related fitness, body composition (BMI and fat percentage), cardiorespiratory fitness (PACER test), muscle strength and endurance (push-ups and curl-ups) and flexibility (v- sit and reach)

Keywords: Covid-19- Physical activity- Physical inactivity- Sedentary behavior

Topic: Physical Activity