Health related fitness performance: Comparison between Malaysian urban, rural, and aboriginal secondary school students / Nur Syahirah Abu Hasan

The purpose of this study was to compare health related fitness performances
of body composition, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength and
cardiovascular endurance on urban, rural and aboriginal secondary school students.
SMK Wangsa Maju Seksyen 2 represented urban, whereas SMK Felda Bukit Sagu
represents rural area and SMK Kuala Krau representing aboriginal area. A total of
three hundred students (N=300) were selected via stratified random sampling
participated in this study. Results showed that there was a significance difference
(p<O.05) in muscular strength, aboriginal (p=.OOI) and urban area (p=.OOI). In
muscular endurance, rural area showed (p=.022) and aboriginal area showed
(p=.OOl) which indicated significance difference of (p<O.05) and for cardiovascular
endurance, urban area showed (p=.OOl) and aboriginal area showed (p=.005). There
was no significance difference in body composition and flexibility (p>O.05). As
conclusion, the findings in this study indicated that the difference in physical fitness
performance among urban, rural and aboriginal secondary school students was
influenced by different types of their daily activity involvement.