ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Impact of COVID-19 on 1000 m Running and Pull-Up Performance among College Men Living in China.
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- Impact of two consecutive COVID-19 outbreaks on the physical fitness in college students: a five-year longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Temporal trends and developmental trajectories of physical fitness among university students: a 13-year accelerated longitudinal study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Physical Fitness Index and body mass index: A cross-sectional study based on 1.3 million college students.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effects of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on college students' physical fitness: A comparative study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Impact of home quarantine on physical fitness of school-aged children in Xi'an during COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on physical fitness among college women living in China.Annals of medicine · 2023Article
- Association between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption frequency and muscle strength: results from a sample of Chinese adolescents.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis study aimed to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on fitness performance among Chinese college men during the pandemic period and to explore how fitness changed with a different college grade.
methodsWe conducted repeated measures of 1000 m running and pull-up testing on students from one university in China before and after the lockdown. A total of 7107 (age 19.21 ± 1.17 yr.) male students who completed the same 1000 m running and pull-up testing in 2019 and 2020 were included in the analysis.
resultsThe paired t-test result indicates a reduction in 1000 m running and pull-up performance by 10.91% (95% CI = 0.89, 0.95) and 23.89% (95% CI = -0.36, -0.31), respectively. Interestingly, college men in the 2017 grade (the third-year college men) had more decreases than in the 2019 grade (the first-year college men). The 1000 m running performance was decreased by 14.43% and 6.48% in the third- and the first-year college men, respectively. The pull-up performance was decreased by 39.11 % in the third-year college men while increased by 10.98% in the first-year college men.
conclusionsThe COVID-19 lockdown reduced 1000 m running and pull-up performances among Chinese college men. The reduction varies by grade and it seems to be particularly seriously decreased for the third-year college men while being modest for the first-year college men. Public policy was urgently needed to improve Chinese college men's fitness performance after the lockdown.
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