1Professor, Department of Cardio Vascular Respiratory Physiotherapy, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Physiotherapy, Pune
2Physiotherapist, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Physiotherapy, Pune
*Correspondence: Dr. Senthil Kumar E.(P.T) M.P.T Assistant Professor, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Physiotherapy Pune-41, Survey No 49/1 Westerly off Mumbai Pune Highway Narhe, Pune-411041, Phone-020-24106137, 24106136, Mobile-8055929464 E-Mail-senthilekumar@gmail.com, senthile_kumar@yahoo.com
Online published on 1 October, 2015.
Schools are increasingly scaling back physical education programs in favor of increasing time spent on academic subjects lay down the foundation of poor fitness and academic performance. The link between physical activity and academic performance is not well understood in Indian Population, which aided to find the association between physical fitness and academic achievement in school going children's.
190 children's participated in this study, whose physical fitness were evaluated by President's challenge physical fitness test and academic performance was computed to grade point average (GPA). Pearson correlation coefficient was used to find the linear relationship between GPA and physical fitness.
A positive correlation was established between academic achievement and physical fitness(r=0.74 P<0.05).
The children's who are physically fit showed good academic performance as compared to under fit Children's.
President's challenge physical fitness test, Grade point average (GPA)
