An Analysis of Scout and Nature Lover Extracurricular on Students’
Physical Fitness
Ade Dodo Widodo, Frengki Yudis Prasetyo and Rangga Ifitrah
School of garaduate Studies, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jln Dr. Setiabudhi No 229, Bandung, Indonesia
Keywords: Scout extracurricular, Nature Lover extracurricular, and Physical Fitness.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was aimed to analyse the physical fitness of scout and Nature Lover extracurricular
in SMKN 1 Cimahi. This study was a quantitative research with descriptive approach. From the total of 132
students in population, the random sampling was applied and each extracurricular had 20 students as the
sample. Trough Indonesian physical fitness assessment (TKJI) scale, the students’ physical fitness data were
gathered and analysed using statistical approach to calculate means of each students’ physical fitness. The
result showed that the mean of scout students’ physical fitness score was 14.55 which is lower than nature
lover students’ physical fitness which was 16.1. Therefore the writers draw a conclusion that Nature Lover
extracurricular can give a better physical fitness than scout extracurricular.
1 INTRODUCTION
Physical fitness is a dynamic healthy degree that is
expected to meet the physical demands in carrying
out the tasks of everyday life. Physical fitness is one
predictor to be able to live healthy. Physical fitness is
defined as a person's ability to perform daily activities
without physical exhaustion and injury and the ability
to maintain high levels of energy to complete daily
tasks (Maltais et al., 2014; Giriwijoyo, dkk., 2007).
Thus, the body system can work together efficiently
and make the body healthy and can perform activities
for everyday life effectively and can avoid
cardiovascular or cancer (Balemans et al., 2015;
Corbin et al., 2007). Therefore, it can be stated that
physical fitness is an important and absolute factor
that must be possessed by every human being,
especially the student with his / her busy schedule so
they will not experience significant fatigue.
At school, students are required to have sufficient
physical fitness to be able to support all activities. In
order to keep their physical fitness, students should be
able to get used to having an active lifestyle. One of
the activities that can maintain the physical fitness
level of students is by participating in extracurricular
activities in school (Abildsnes et al., 2015).
In addition, the participation of students in these
extracurricular activities has also been regulated by
the Government of Indonesia in the implementation
of the 2013 curriculum, which is mentioned in
Permendikbud. 81A Year 2013 stating that
extracurricular must be an extracurricular program
that must be followed by all learners, except for
learners with certain conditions that do not allow it to
follow extracurricular activities. Thus, the
participation of students in extracurricular activities
is mandatory and binding, in which the student must
follow one of the extracurricular activities offered in
the school.
As the realization of the implementation of the
curriculum 2013, SMKN 1 Cimahi is one of the
schools that apply and also requires their students to
participate in extracurricular activities. Of the many
extracurricular activities on offer, Extracurricular
Scouts and Nature Lovers are the most sought after
by the students. This is indicated by the number of
students who follow both extracurricular activities. In
addition, these two extracurricular activities also have
a variety of activities that can drain the student's
energy, such as camping up, climbing, walking
through city parks, and roads in the rice fields. The
activity is a game activity that is done in the form of
recreational activities which do not consider the end
result of the students' fitness. With voluntary and non-
compulsive play, these students are unaware of
physical training, which includes balance exercises,
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and agility of hand eye coordination (Baklien,
Ytterhus and Bongaardt, 2016). Playing in the wild as
ups and downs can also improve the quality of knee
and cardiovascular joints (Vrieling et al., 2008;
Gatterer et al., 2014). The activities undertaken in
these two extracurricular activities involve physical
activity that requires good physical fitness. Thus,
through both extracurricular, it is expected the
physical condition and endurance of the students can
increase and they are able to follow the learning
activities well. Thus, they have a high degree of
physical fitness and will support the activities of
learning activities and improve performance and able
to perform other physical activities. Playing in the
natural environment is also said to affect the physical
development of children (Acar, 2014). So playing in
the natural environment can be a place for students to
experiment, solve problems, think creatively,
cooperate with others, and at the same time develop
their physical abilities and gain deeper knowledge
about themselves and the world (Bento and Dias,
2017, Heggie and Heggie, 2009; Bjørgen, 2016).
Based on the above exposure, the authors are
interested to analyze and compare physical fitness
between students who follow extracurricular Scout
with students who follow extracurricular Nature
Lovers at SMKN 1 Cimahi. Thus, it can be seen
which extracurricular activities can contribute best in
improving students' physical fitness.
2 METHOD
2.1 Design
The research method used in this research is
quantitative method with descriptive approach.
2.2 Participants
The sample of the study were 20 students who
actively follow scout extracurricular and 20 students
who actively follow the nature lovers extracurricular
in SMKN 1 Cimahi by using Random Sampling
technique.
2.3 Instrument
The data were obtained by using the instrument of
five Physical Fitness Tests adopted from Nurhasan
(2013), ie: 60m quick run, body lift (pull-up) for 30
seconds for female and 60 seconds for male, sit up for
60 seconds, vertical jump, and runs along 1000 m for
female and 1200 meters for male. All the results of
the test then compared with the norms in accordance
with the assessment of the Physical Fitness Test
(Nurhasan, 2013). Then, the average results of this
fitness test were analyzed and compared to measure
which extracurricular activity contributed
significantly to improve students' physical fitness.
3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
After the measurement of five Physical Fitness Tests
on the physical condition of the students, the average
result of the test is described below:
Figure 1: Comparison result of physical fitness.
Based on the comparison results found that in
extracurricular nature lover found about 3 students in
good category, 15 students in moderate category, 2
students bad category, 0 students in very bad
category. While in the extracurricular nature lovers, it
was found that 1 student in good category, 14 students
are moderate, 4 students bad and one student in very
bad category. So it can be seen that the results of
student tests that follow the nature lovers
extracurricular give a higher influence on the physical
fitness of students compared with the scout
extracurricular.
While on the calculation of difference of average
result from two extracurricular, got the result of scout
average counting that is 14,55 where this result is
lower than the average count of student joining nature
lovers extracurricular, that is 16,1. Then it can be seen
that the extracurricular activities of nature lovers can
contribute more to the physical fitness of students
compared with scout extracurricular activities in
SMK N 1 Cimahi.
Thus, the findings in this study are in line with
findings that have been suggested by previous studies
in which playing activities in nature can improve
physical fitness (Gatterer et al., 2014; Neumayr et al.,
2014). Therefore, extracurricular activities of nature
lovers can be a means of recreational activities of
students who are able to improve students' physical
fitness.
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4 CONCLUSIONS
Based on the results of calculation and data analysis
of the results of measurement tests, it can be
concluded that the nature lover extracurricular
activities can contribute more to the physical fitness
of students compared with scout extracurricular
activities in SMK N 1 Cimahi.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This study was funded by Indonesia Endowment
Fund for Education Scholarship or LPDP Indonesia.
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