2025 Volume 46 Pages 116-127
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of the decrease in physical activities due to voluntary or involuntary stay-at-home to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on fitness of elderly people after the pandemic. The subjects were 414 elderly people （74 males and 340 females） who participated in a fitness-assessment event in October 2023, in which they underwent fitness tests and answered a questionnaire about physical activities during the pandemic. There were no significant differences in the mean values of fitness test results between those who decreased and those who maintained the activity level during the pandemic. This suggests that the participants may have incurred a temporary decline in fitness due to voluntary restriction of outing during the pandemic but recovered half a year after the reclassification of COVID-19 as a Class V infectious disease.
