VIRTUAL GYM, AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION LOS GIMNASIOS VIRTUALES, UNA OPCION INNOVADORA

Juana Maria Saucedo Soto, Juan Bernardo Amezcua Nunez, Alicia de la Pena de Leon and Judith Esmeralda Zuniga Martinez

Revista Internacional Administracion & Finanzas, 2019, vol. 12, issue 2, 79-85

Abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO, 2010) refers to exercise as a variety of physical activities planned, structured, repetitive and performed for the improvement or maintenance of one or more components of physical fitness. Many people attend gyms to achieve it. However, some people are unable to do so because of limited time, distance and health or physical problems. More than a billion adults are overweight, 300 million of them are obese, causing serious diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, various cancers, etc. causing deaths and high costs on health care (WHO, 2010). The objective of this research is to identify the perception of young people regarding exercise and the use of virtual gyms. The sample was 205 people. The results show: 78.5% of university students like to exercise, of them 40.98% are women. 47.8% have a moderate to high level of physical activity and of that group 28.78% are men. We find a lack of knowledge about virtual gyms Classification-JEL: M31

Keywords: Virtual Gym; Exercise; Innovation; Sedentary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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