Relationship Between Aerobic Fitness And Academic Performance

This chapter provides a summary of the research which includes the purpose of the study, the problem statement, the methodology review and the summary of results. This chapter will also provide a discussion of the results, and a conclusion which will include the limitations of the study as well as implications and recommendations for future research to add to the research already completed on the relationship between fitness and academic performance.
There are a surplus of circumstances that influence academic performance, some which are indefinable. More research is needed on the relationship between aerobic fitness and academic achievement performance among other factors due to the increasing number of children suffering from being overweight or obese (Hall, 2007). The purpose of this study was based on the assumption that a child’s ability to achieve academically success can be affected by their health and physical well being. Besides physical fitness, there are many other external factors that could possibly have affected the results of this study. These factors were not able to be identified or controlled by the researcher.
The research problem was to
In this research the null hypothesis was rejected and a positive relationship was discovered between academic performance and aerobic fitness. A strong indicator of physical fitness is a high level of aerobic fitness. Aerobic capacity is increased by aerobic activity and this increases brain activity as blood flow and oxygen to the brain is increased. The results of this study are similar in nature to the results found by (Hall, 2007; Jensen, 1998; Lambourne,2006; Shephard, 1997; & Sigman, 2008), on the topic aerobic fitness and academic