TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Summary

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Acknowledgement

List of illustrations

Terms of Reference

Introduction

Findings

Conclusions

Recommendations

References

Appendixes

Acknowledgements The special thank goes to my helpful lecturer, Madam Parimala. The advised and support that she gave truly help the progression and smoothness our Report Writing (BEL 422) paper. 1.0 Term of Reference On 4th October 2012, Abdul Arief bin Sallehudin, Wan Ahmad Hanif bin Wan Zulkafali, Fathin Zuhair bin Zukri, Muhammad Rayzuddin bin Muhamad from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering were instructed by Madam Parimala to write a report on Exercising condition among UiTM Shah Alam Students. This report which includes the background information, finaliys, conclusions and recommendation is to be submitted on 20 December 2012.

2.0 Introduction This section will discuss the background of the study, the statement of the problem, the objectives of the study, methods used and the limitations of the study. 2.1 Background of Study Exercising is one of the best options to stay healthy. Example of exercise is jogging, sport games and others. The advantages of exercise is that it can improve mood. According to Mayo Clinic (2011), exercise encourages certain hormone to be excreted that stimulates good brain activity. Students should know fact and use it to their advantages. Exercise can also help us to stay fit, even though they are not doing it periodically. According to John Wade (2010), exercise does not have to be in a long period, even short period exercise is sufficient for them to get full benefit of it. This probably because of pack schedule that students have their daily life. They do not have enough time to exercise. In addition, student may not aware about the importance of healthy lifestyle. 2.2 Statement of the Problem Exercise habits among students is an issue because they do not emphasize on their good daily lifestyle as it will leads to a lots of negative effects such as they cannot focus in their study, look tired and less energetic in the class. Another problem that student will face is less self confidence, as their body is unhealthy it will affecting their mental

2.3 Objectives of the Report The following are the objectives of this report 2.2.1. To investigate how regularly students exercise 2.2.2. To find out what types of exercise they do 2.2.3. To investigate how much time they spend for exercise

2.2.4. To find out how much money they spend for exercise 2.4 Methods and Limitations of the Report To gather information for this report, 30 form of questionnaire were distributed to students from Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical and the last one is Civil Engineering. In addition, scholarly data bases were also used to research the topic of Exercise Habits among student in UiTM Shah Alam.

3.0 Findings This section looks into 3.1 Profile of Respondents 3.1.1 Gender Seventy eight percent of the students were male and the rest were female students. 3.1.2 Faculty It was found that 46.7% of the students from Faculty of Chemical Engineering, 16.7% of them from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and 23.3% from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the last one is 13.3% of Civil Engineering Faculty Students. 3.1.3 Age Survey showed that 80% of the students are 20, 13.3% are in 21 and 6.7% are in 22.

3.1.4 How often students exercise How regularly do you exercise? 1. It was found that 56.7% of respondents regularly exercised once in a week. For respondents, who exercised twice and thrice in a week, they shared the same percentage that is 20%. While the rest, who preferred to exercise in other time made up 3.3% from the rest. How do you feel about yourself? 2. It was found that 60% of respondents were feeling normal about themselves. While 33.3% of respondents were feeling fit. While the rest, who were feeling fat and lazy, they both only contribute 3.35% to the findings percentage. Do you have time for exercising? 3. The findings showed that 83.35% of respondents had time for exercising. While the other 16.65% stated that they did not have time for exercising.

How do you feel about yourself?

3.35% 3.35%

Normal 33.30% 60% Fit Fat Lazy

3.1.5 Type of exercise do you prefer What type of exercise do you prefer? 1. It was found that 70% of the respondents like outdoor exercise and the rest liked indoor exercise. Do you agree exercise can improve your health? 2. All of the respondents agree that exercise can improve health. Do you have a coach to guide you? 3. The result showed 86.7% of the respondents did not have a coach to guide and 13.3% respondents had a coach. How do you prefer to exercise? 4. It was found that 66.67% of the respondents enjoyed doing exercise in a group and 33.33% of the respondents enjoyed doing exercise individually. What exercise do you do during leisure time? 5. Forty three point three percent of the respondents enjoyed doing jogging , 33.3% played futsal, 13.3% played badminton, 3.7% played basketball and 6.7% played others. What obstacles do you face when you want to exercise? 6. The result showed 60% of the respondents faced obstacles in term of facilities, 30% of them do not have friend to exercise, 6.7% others and 3.3% had obstacles in cost. Do you do the same type of exercise in one session? 7. It was found that 66.67% liked to do the same type of exercise in one session while 33.33% of them did not do the same type of exercise.

Student Prefer to Exercise

Individually In a Group

The Chosen Exercise They Do In Leisure Time

50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Joging Futsal Badminton Basketball Others The Chosen Exercise They Do In Leisure Time

3.1.6 Time spent for exercising 1. It was found that 80% of respondents exercised in the evening, 19.7% in the night and 3.3% in the morning. 2. Eighty seven percent of respondent spent between 1-5 hours for exercising and the rest spent between 5-10 hours. 3. The result showed 83.3% of respondents exercised during leisure time and the rest did not exercise during leisure time. 4. It was found that 36.7% of the respondents took 10-20 minutes to complete one exercise session, while 26.67% of respondents took 20-30 minutes and others took 3040 minutes.

3.1.7 Money spent for exercising 1. It was found that 53.4% of the respondents had paid between RM2 to RM6 for one session of exercise. 23.3% and 10% of the respondents spent RM7 to RM11 and RM12 to RM16 respectively. Four out of 30 respondents which represents 13.3% spent other than amount of money given whereas there was no respondents spent from RM17 to RM21 for each session of exercise. 2. The findings showed that 70% of the respondents only spent RM10 to RM50 for exercise monthly including the supplement. 10% of them spent between RM50 to RM100 whereas another 3.3% and 16.7% of the respondents spent from RM100 to RM150 and chose other than the amount given respectively for their exercise monthly. There was no respondents spent between RM150 up to RM200. 3. The findings showed that 70% of the respondents only spent RM10 to RM50 for exercise monthly including the supplement. 10% of them spent between RM50 to RM100 whereas another 3.3% and 16.7% of the respondents spent from RM100 to RM150 and

chose other than the amount given respectively for their exercise monthly. There was no respondents spent between RM150 up to RM200. 4. The findings showed that 70% of the respondents only spent RM10 to RM50 for exercise monthly including the supplement. 10% of them spent between RM50 to RM100 whereas another 3.3% and 16.7% of the respondents spent from RM100 to RM150 and chose other than the amount given respectively for their exercise monthly. There was no respondent spent between RM150 up to RM200.

4.0 Conclusion 4.1 How often students exercise 1. It can be concluded that majority of respondents are in good health condition. This is

surely have to do with the vast number of respondents who engage actively in exercise. According to Mayo Clinic Staff (2011), regular exercise improves peoples mood. During exercise, several brain chemicals are induced, which at the end makes people feels fitter, healthier and more relaxed.

4.2. Type of exercise do you prefer It can be concluded that the majority of the respondents liked to do outdoor exercise because they feel free and can a view while exercise. 1. It can be concluded that all the respondents realized that exercise can improve health because muscles are being contract and relax leads to good circulation of blood flow. Other than that, exercise can controls weight, improves mood also reduce the risk of diseases by Mayo Clinic Stuff (2011). 2. The results show that most of the students do not have a coach to guide because they cannot afford to pay a coach for proper exercise. As a student, their money are more focusing on books and other stuff that more important.

3. Most of the respondents are enjoyed doing exercise in a group than individually because they can chat together while exercise. 4. It can be conclude that, the majority of the respondents are enjoyed doing jogging because it is easy to find place for jogging. 5. The result shows that, the majority of the respondents face obstacles in term of facilities because the facilities in the university cannot afford a large amount of students. 6. Most of the respondents are more often to do the same type of exercise in one session because they do not have enough time to exercise. 7. 4.3 Time spent for exercising It can be concluded that the majority of respondents prefer doing an exercise in the evening. The main reason is the most respondents are free and doing nothing during this time as the most of university students, there are no class sessions in the evening. In addition, the most of respondents spend about between 1 to 5 hours for exercising. These show respondents as students do not emphasize on how long exercise session but emphasize more on how regularly they do the exercise is. Average students only take below than 5 hours time for exercising as it is not a major thing that they should focus for rather than studying. Furthermore, base on this finding it shows that majority of respondents still take important on their health while busying with their study, assignments, exam and so on.

4.4 Money spent for exercising It can be concluded that the amount between RM2 to RM6 was the most preferable amount to be paid by the majority of the students. This indicates that the students are trying to spend least money for exercise as they need to spend their money to pay the other important things like for books and fees. Mayo Clinic staff said that you do not need to join a gym to take physical activity seriously, plenty of low-cost alternatives can help you get fit without breaking your budget.

From the findings, it also indicates that the majority of the students had spend around RM10 to RM50 per month for exercising and supplements. They did not need to pay higher cost because there are so many places had been set up by government for exercise with no fees taken. Sam Ellyn said that you can reduce the costs of health insurance premiums, the amount you spend on medicines and the pays for doctor visits with proper nutrition and regular exercise. As a conclusion, more than half of the respondents will doing other activities when they did not have enough money for exercise. They will doing other activities like jogging, sleeping and cycling because there is no need to spend money on it and it can be done everywhere. Thus, majority of the respondents said that they did not take any supplements together with exercising because they afraid of having a side effect when taking any supplements as some of them are not suitable for their bodies. Impaul99 quoted that if you do not want to take any supplements, you will still make gains, but you'll have to work harder for less result so it is up to you.

5.0 Recommendations Base on the preceding information, the following are recommendations that will help the respondents as university students to take important on the exercise is and achieve a healthy body. 1. It is recommended that the UiTM should create more events for students to gain more information about the benefits of exercise, the steps how to do exercise in a right way, the information on the bad effect of taking exercise such a waste things and so on. Therefore, the events that suppose to be created is health campaign, annual sport day or annual sport competition not only in university itself but abroad.

2. It is suggested that the UiTM should provide more facilities around the campus site for students as it will trigger the interest for students to exercise more regularly that usual. 3. UiTM sports center should provide a free coaches for students.

References 1. Reference for 1st conclusion: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fitness/HQ00694_D by Mayo Clinic staff

2. Reference for 2nd conclusion: http://www.livestrong.com/article/302080-how-healthcare-costs-lower-with-healthy-diet-exercise/ - by Sam Ellyn 4th

3. Reference

for

conclusion:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/health-

fitness/29263-exercising-without-supplements.html - by impaul99

Appendix