ASSESSMENT OF MUSCULAR ENDURANCE AMONG THE STUDENT OF AMINU KANO COLLEGE OF ISLAMIC AND LEGAL STUDIES

Abstract

Abstract This study assessed the muscular endurance of students of Aminu Kano College of Islamic and legal studies, Kano, Kano State. Two research questions and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for this study was 12, 072 students and a sample of 380 students were drawn through a multi-staged sampling procedure. The variable measured was muscular endurance. Simple frequency counts and percentages was used to organize and describe the demographic characteristics of the respondents; means and standard deviations were used for the physical characteristics of the respondents and inferential statistics of chi square was used to test the hypothesis to determine the muscular fitness of respondents and independent t-test was used to determine the difference between the male and female students. The results of the study revealed that students of the College have significant muscular endurance (ᵡ2 = 6.40, p = 0.001 < 0.05). Male students of the College do not significantly differ (t = 0.895, p = 0.372 > 0.05) from their female counterparts in their muscular endurance. Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations were made that the physical activity of students should be a concern for the school in particular and the policy makers in general. Students of the College should be encouraged as much as possible to develop their physical fitness through daily physical activities because doing so will develop their physical fitness as well as free them from diseases, such as back pains and leg pains.

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