Volume 18, No. 6, 2021
Effects Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Physical Activity Of University Athletes
Javeria Iman Ullah , Yasmin Iqbal, M. Farhan Tabassum , Abdul Fahim , Sadaf Hussain
Abstract
The covid-19 pandemic, often known as the Corona virus, has wreaked the biggest havoc on the global athletic calendar. All sports leagues and events has been postponed due to covid-19. This thesis is a struggle to find out how covid-19 affected the routines of games practice of young athletes and also what strategies they are using to maintain their physical fitness. The study's aims are to investigate the relationship between covid-19 pandemic and physical activity, as well as the impact of covid-19 pandemic on physical activity. For this purpose, 135 University level athletes completed the questionnaire about covid-19 and physical activity. The information was gathered from three private sector universities: The University of Lahore, The University of Central Punjab, and The University of Management and Technology. In this investigation, an analytical and cross-sectional study approach was adopted with simple random sampling. Moreover, results disclosed that the physical activity had positive effect on athlete performance but the covid-19 had negative effect on physical activity of university athletes. According to results findings it is suggested that players at university level can improve their physical activity by adopting precautionary measures against Covid-19. Covid-19 can decrease the chances to improve the players performance. The results show that the effects of Covid-19 on physical activity have important impact on players performance, therefore this is time to think about the implementations and gain some benefits of it.
Pages: 6686-6698
Keywords: Athletes, Physical activities, Covid-19 pandemic, Performance.