The Effects Of Body Mass Index On Physical Fitness: A Focus On Endurance, Speed, Flexibility, And Muscular Endurance

Abstract

The increasing incidence of overweight and obesity in Pakistan and around the world makes it necessary to investigate the relationship between BMI and key aspects of physical fitness. The primary objective of this research is to determine the relationship of BMI with physical fitness components like General Endurance, Muscular Endurance, Speed and Flexibility. The students of ADP and BS were the taken in this research those have chosen physical education subject, 290 female participant of physical education students at college level were selected. Testing of hypothesis was conducted with the appropriate tests like Pearson’s correlation technique. The data was analysed by using the (SPSS-27 version). The results showed a statistically significant negative relationship between speed and BMI (r = -.020, p =.038), suggesting that those with higher BMIs typically operate at slower speeds. Like this result, other results are mention in discussion portion. It is confirmed by the results provide by the statistical analysis that speed, power and flexibility are negatively associated with BMI. These results prove that those participants have increasing BMI that reduces these physical fitness components. It is also natural phenomena that obese persons are less flexible. It is also determined by statistical results that general endurance has positively insignificant association with BMI.