Journal of Gymnastics for All
Online ISSN : 1883-5872
ISSN-L : 1883-5872
Volume 10
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Research notes
  • – focusing on the change of mood before and after exercise measured by the Two-dimensional Mood Scale –
    Yoshika Mariko, Yoshinori Kaneko, Chisato Hasegawa
    Article type: Research notes
    2013 Volume 10 Pages 1-8
    Published: March 28, 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: April 17, 2013
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    The aim of this study is as follows. We implemented an exercise using a Large-sized ball as the introduction to a class for women university students. The aim of this study is to make it clear how the psychological state changes before and after the exercise, and how it changes according to the time of the exercise: before or after noon. The subjects were 84 of women students of J-University who took the course of “Lifelong sports practice” which is one of the related subjects of sports and exercise in J-University. An exercise using a Large-sized ball was implemented for 30 minutes as the introduction to the class, and the change in psychological state was measured as the Two-dimensional Mood Scale. Also, on the voluntary base, questionnaire investigation was performed in which students were asked to describe their feeling in free format. As a result, it was found that degree of pleasure level and arousal level significantly increased after the exercise irrespective of the time of implementation. The change in feeling before and after the exercise, for both AM group and PM group, was as follows. After the exercise a trend was seen that the two-dimensional-coordinate shifted from “the area of apathy, dysphoria” to the “activity oriented area”. As for the description of the feeling before and after the exercise, much of it was about the feeling of unpleasantness and constipation before the exercise. After the exercise, however, much of it was about pleasantness. It was observed that by implementing an exercise using a Large-sized ball as the introduction to a class for women university students, the degree of pleasure level and arousal level increase irrespective of the time of implementation; improvement of the psychological state is suggested toward the activity oriented state.
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Original papers
  • – Investigating a possibility of utilizing parks as health-enhancement facilities based on the questionnaire surveys conducted to the participants in earlymorning exercise at Lumpini Park, Thailand, in 2004 and 2012 –
    Yoshinori Kaneko, Yoshika Mariko, Chisato Hasegawa
    Article type: Original papers
    2013 Volume 10 Pages 9-29
    Published: September 30, 2013
    Released on J-STAGE: October 23, 2013
    JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS
    The authors conducted a questionnaire survey to the participants in early-morning exercise at the Lumpini Park, Thailand, in 2004 as a preliminary case study of utilization of parks as health-enhancement facilities. We conducted the survey in 2012 again in order to confirm the change in the state of implementation after years of time passage, and in order to get a hint of extensive usage of parks in Japan. In both cases, the majority of respondents were men over 60 years and women between 40 and 60 years. A large percent of respondents’ occupation included, self-owned business, freelance professional, full-time housewife, and the unemployed. The aim of doing the exercise was mostly “for the enhancement of health”. Most of them participated in the exercise every day or 5 to 6 days a week coming to the park by 6 o’ clock in the early morning and spending 2 to 3 hours in the park. In 2004, popular types of exercise for men were, walking, taijiquan, and qigong. In 2012, they were mainly walking and jogging. For women, both in 2004 and in 2012, popular types were mostly walking and aerobics. The largest merit of continuing the exercise, they answered, was “they have become disease resistant.” The most attractive features of the park, they answered, were, “it was abundant in nature”, and “there were mates to do exercise together”. Almost all of the respondents answered that the exercise at the Lumpini Park occupied a “necessary part in their life”. It was suggested that the early-morning exercise at the Lumpini Park has become their habit as an important part of their life.
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