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 Volume 6, Issue 10 (October 2019), Pages: 89-93

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Physical fitness norm for form six sports science students in Kedah

 Author(s): Gunathevan Elumalai 1, *, Ahmad Hashim 1, Mohd Izwan Shahril 1, Norkhalid Salimin 1, Frederick Josue Frederick Mojilon 1, Junaidy Mohd Hashim 2, Saidil Mazlan Abdul Razak 1

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Sports Science and Coaching, University Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia
 2Department of Physical Education, Sultan Abdul Halim Teachers Training College, Kedah, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7882-0741

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.10.014

 Abstract:

The aim of this study is to determine and develop health related physical fitness criterion reference norm for Form Six Sports Science students in Kedah. Health related physical fitness should be evaluated among these students to make sure potential candidates selected to study in form six. The purposive sampling method used to select 225 subjects, consists of 107 male and 118 female students. The Prudential FITNESSGRAM® was used to measure cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility and body mass index (BMI). Researchers used the mean, standard deviation, z scores and t scores to produce the overall health related fitness norm. Base on the norm produced the result for male and female students showed there were clear differences among both genders in each and every component of health related physical fitness level. The findings also proved that gender plays a major role in physical fitness and there should be separate norms by gender for all the fitness components accept Body Mass Index as recommended by the world Health Organization. The norm developed through this research can be used as a selection reference to recruit form six sports science students in the state of Kedah. The same criteria also followed by a higher education institution for student recruitment. In addition, this norm can also help students and teachers to maintain their level of health related physical fitness. Hopefully, this norm can be extended to other states in order to select potential students majoring in Sports Science and meet the needs of holistic human development according to our national education policy. 

 © 2019 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Physical fitness, Sports science students, Form six, Fitness norms, Prudential FITNESSGRAM®

 Article History: Received 5 May 2019, Received in revised form 12 August 2019, Accepted 15 August 2019

 Acknowledgement:

This article produced under the Special Fundamental Research Grant (2017-0211-107-01) given by Research Management and Innovation centre (RMIC), University Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Our sincere thanks to the RMIC, UPSI for the opportunity.

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 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Elumalai G, Hashim A, and Shahril MI et al. (2019). Physical fitness norm for form six sports science students in Kedah. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(10): 89-93

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