ABSTRACT
Introduction
The college sports environment is characterized by breadth, diversity, and personality. This is an important period to develop students’ physical ability and improve their personality.
Objective
Compare the effects of different exercise methods on students’ health status.
Methods
2991 college students participated in different sports activities. These sports were conducted based on the selection course (PE), all during one semester. The students’ physical health status was observed through experiments performed before and after the intervention.
Results
Activities such as basketball and soccer showed high effectiveness in improving students’ vital capacity index, volleyball expressively improved students’ performance in the long jump, tennis and table tennis were effective in improving students’ strength and adherence index, being lower in other indices. Martial arts also stood out in improving the students’ vital capacity index.
Conclusion
Improving physical health should be an overall process of students’ fitness development, and universities should actively encourage college students to participate in long-term sports to improve their health. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.
Universities; Physical Education and Training; Health Status Indicators; Benchmarking