Relationship between the practice of aerobic physical activity and obesity in university students

Abstract

The objective of this research is to determine how the practice of aerobic physical activity and obesity is related, it was carried out with the interest of knowing how this problem has increased in students since, through the pandemic, the number of cases of overweight and this would lead to obesity in the future. The present study is of a correlational, quantitative nature with a simple non-probabilistic random sampling, with a reliability level of 95%, a pilot test was carried out with 34 first-semester students. As a result of the correlation, the value of Pearson's R .782 was obtained, which showed that it is a strong positive correlation between the variables. Thus, there is a relationship between aerobic physical activity and obesity in first-semester students. The relationship between the practice of aerobic physical activity and obesity are closely related, since the practice of this activity dissipates body fat levels, being a type of long-term activity, we need an energy reserve and therefore so spend those calories that make us raise our body mass index.