The Effect of Circuit Games on Increasing the Physical Fitness of Students Aged 8–12 Years

Abstract

Circuit games are a method that can be used in the learning process within the scope of educational units with various functions and benefits. This study aims to determine whether the learning process using the circuit game method affects the physical fitness of elementary school students.This type of research is quasi-experimental research with a quantitative approach. The design used in this research is pre-test and post-test. The population in this study was 60 male students, but not all of the population that was collected in this study was used. Only 40 students were used after fulfilling the inclusion criteria. The subject inclusion criteria in this study were that the subjects had to be 8-12 years old, in grades 4.5 and grade 6, then the subjects also did not have health disorders such as heart disease, respiratory problems and so on. The subjects with class level and age were 14 grade 4 students with 9 students aged 8 years and 5 students aged 9 years, 13 students in grade 5, 5 students aged 10 years and 8 students aged 11 years , and the last subject was grade 6 students totaling 11 students, 6 students aged 11 years and 5 students aged 12 years. All subjects in this study were maleThe five tests are 50 m sprint, 20-30 second sit ups, hanging elbows bent, vertical jump and 400 m long distance running. All of these tests were based on elementary school students who were in grades 4, 5 and 6.The results of this study indicated that the process of training using circuit games had a major impact on improving the physical fitness of elementary school students. The results of this study were based on the final test in the study by obtaining an L-count score = 89,139, then this value was compared with the L-table value (df=n-1=39=0.05) to obtain 19,483. So that an L-table is obtained, thus the hypothesis in the study which states that circuit games affect the physical fitness of Muhammadiyah elementary school students in the city of Yogyakarta can be accepted.Then this research can be concluded, there is an influence of the learning process using the circuit game method to improve the physical condition of elementary school students.