Should University Students Do Exercise on a Daily Basis?

Larissa Vasconcelos, Mohammad Alabandi, and I are interested to know whether student do regular physical exercises on a daily basis or not. We formulated our hypothesis, “Southern Illinois university students do exercises on a daily basis“. We created a survey to interview our respondents about the topic. We found that most of Southern Illinois students agreed with the benefits of doing regular physical exercises; however, more than a half of the respondents do not do exercises on a daily basis. It boiled down to this; the majority of the respondents were not in accordance with our hypothesis, on the other hand, there are some articles also support our initial ideas. In our survey we hypothesized that university student do regular physical exercises.

We asked 83 people in Southern Illinois University Student Centre, 35 women, and 48 men. We discovered that the American student do regular physical exercises more than international students. Most of the students agreed that regular physical exercises are important. Moreover, some students do not do regular physical exercises because they do not have time. We found that 9% only go to the gym every day. Our results hold up our hypothesis, and I wish this information could help many people to understand the ideas behind our hypotheses. We made 10 questions for 83 people, and, we collected within one week. Our questions will help us to give clear picture of Southern Illinois university student exercises. We met eighty people in SIU Student Center. We interviewed some of them, and we asked the other to fill out our survey; however some people refused to fill our survey

In our survey, we found that the main reasons that keep students away from recreation center are that they do not have time because they have full schedule. Some of them said they do not like to go to the recreation center without friends which main friends are supporting each other to do a sport. 53% said they have no time to go to the recreation center, and, 21% said that they only like to go to the recreation center with friends. The interesting point was from people who are less 22 years old; they have less time than the people who are over 22 years old. I think this is because people under 22 years old have more classes than people over 22 years old. We found that the results are not supporting our hypothesis; Southern Illinois university students do exercises on a daily basis. Interestingly enough, the majority of the respondents do not do daily exercises. Most of the respondents agree that the exercises are beneficial for them, but only a few numbers of them are actually doing regular daily exercises. The most interesting result is that the majority of our respondents know that physical exercises are important for their health and success; however, we found that only a few students do exercises in a daily basis. We found that the main cause that prevents them from doing physical exercise is time constrains. I think that the students need time management courses. For example, when students get time management courses, at that time they will be able to manage their time in appropriate way in order to have some time to do physical exercises.

I think the project was successful because we learned how to work as team, and how to share knowledge with each other. Moreover, it gave us more experience to do a professional research paper in the future. Also, we learned how to interview with different nationality students. For example, I was shy away from talking with foreign people; however, after this survey I learned how I could talk with foreign people very well.

The project would be better if we do it in different universities in order to know more about the students who do physical exercises. We would ask more students, and we would use a phone survey to get more information and to practice speaking with native speakers. In this project the time was not enough to discover more opinions.