The Effectiveness of Outdoor Recreation Activities on Adults’ Fitness Level

Abstract

This study was mainly venture into effectiveness of outdoor recreation activities on adults’ fitness level. Total of 28 males and 13 female adults involved voluntarily. Various technique skills, such as kayaking; abseiling; trekking and navigating or compasses; and survival skills as well as recreational managing skills, were performed as intervention of this study in the duration of 14 weeks. The adults were undergone various hands-on practices for 3 hourly per session and per week. The final result showed descriptively all adults increased in their fitness level throughout 14-week outdoor recreation activities that ran by the course’s instructor. Thus, the hypotheses of Ho1 and Ho2 have been failed to reject with statistically of each composition: chest: (t (28) = 1.76; p > 0.05; abdomen: t (28) = 0.10; p > 0.05; thigh: t (28) = 0.15; p > 0.05, and t (28) = 1.88, p > 0.05), respectively, accepted iliac crest and thigh measurement of females after 14 weeks of intervention (female iliac crest with t (13) = 2.24; <0.05; thigh t (13) = 4.32; <0.05), whereas Ho3 and Ho4 have been rejected by paired sample t-test resulted that there was significant differences in mean score before and after the intervention (body weight: t (41) = 6.72; p < 0.05, 2.4-km results showed male with statistically t (28) = 25.30, p < 0.05; female: t (13) = 26.75; p < 0.05), respectively. In addition, this study had justified that the activities planned as intervention were relevance and appropriate for outdoor recreation activities in order to increase level of adults’ fitness, and at the same time, multiple linear regression ran that predicted factors that could be most influenced to one’s physical fitness level were gender, weight, chronological age, and height of adults, and this was fulfillment of the outcome-based education perspective.