Exercise Contents with High Continuous Acceptability in Daily Life for University Liberal Arts Physical Education Students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to devise/coach an exercise program which can be implemented comfortably in daily life in order to develop a college-education coursework to heighten outside-school-hour activities, and in addition, to make clear that what physical exercise whose continuity in daily life is highly acceptable. We devised exercise contents which have a high affinity to daily-life activities and low in physical burden, and checked the easiness of continuing them by choosing students who take the course of physical education as part of the liberal arts in college as the test target. The results of Web questionnaire were as follows: (1) Many of the devised contents were affirmatively assessed from all of the view points of degree of interest/comfort, level of difficulty, degree of desire to implement them. (2) 29 % of the students continued the exercise contents for more than a week after the end of the course period. The stretching-oriented exercise contents were more favorably accepted than the training-oriented exercise contents. (3) The reasons for the students’ continuation of the exercise were mostly its easiness and light-heartedness. From the above result, it was suggested that the exercise contents devised in this study were affirmatively assessed and that ‘stretching-oriented exercise which can be performed easily with a light heart’ is highly acceptable in continuing in daily life.