Comprehensive Physical Fitness Assessment in Sports Education Students: A Multidimensional Analysis of Gender and BMI Influences

Abstract

Students in sports education who want to become physical education instructors need to do a full physical fitness test. The goal of this study was to look at the diverse effects of gender and body mass index (BMI) categories on the physical fitness of sports education freshmen from many angles. A cross-sectional descriptive study was done with 80 first-year sports education students (61 males and 19 females) at Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur. They were all 19 years old. The whole fitness exam looked at muscular strength (push-ups), explosive power (vertical jump), flexibility (sit-and-reach), cardiovascular endurance (multistage fitness test), and body composition. There were big disparities between men and women in all fitness areas (p < 0.05). Men did better on strength and power tests, while women did better on flexibility tests. BMI showed that 46.25% of people were at a healthy weight, 35% were overweight, 17.5% were underweight, and 1.25% were obese. Students with a normal BMI had far better cardiovascular endurance than those who were overweight (p < 0.001). The study shows that future physical education teachers are not in great shape, with most of them scoring below the ideal ranges. To make sports education students more physically ready, they need intervention programs that are tailored to their gender and body mass index (BMI).

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026): Sport-Mu: Jurnal Pendidikan Olahraga

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