Physical Fitness and Human Performance

Abstract

The relationship between physical fitness and performance as determined by psychomotor reaction times and psychological state was investigated in an experiment using two different exercise programs and thirty subjects. There were ten subjects in each exercise group and the remaining ten were in a control group. The statistical tests used in this investigation suggest that the subjects in the exercise programs significantly lowered their psychomotor reaction times as a result of their exercise while the psychomotor reaction times of the control group were unchanged. No statistical evidence of a change in the psychological state of the subjects as a result of exercise was shown.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0754357

Entities

People

  • Donald J. Parrish
  • John Frederick Lambert

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Science
  • Depression
  • Heart Rate
  • Hostility
  • Indicators
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Motor Skills
  • Parametric Analysis
  • Performance Tests
  • Physical Fitness
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychomotor Performance
  • Reaction Time
  • Stationary
  • Statistical Tests
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Exercise and Sports Science.