Research on the creation of an original school gymnastic to the university song and its benefits

Abstract

The objective of this research is to devise an original school gymnastic to the university song and to examine its benefits. In 2006, we devised the ‘J-Women’s University gymnastic’ to fit the university song, which was an instrumental piano song without lyrics. Using 336 firstgrade students as our subjects we conducted our investigation during warm-up exercises in class from May to July 2007, and during the final week we took the heart rate measurement (201 students) as well as conducted an anonymous survey (308 students). The results were as follows: a mild increase in heart rate from 83.5 (±12.0) bpm 30 sec after commencing exercise to 102.3 (±13.3) bpm 3 min after commencing exercise. With regard to ‘Matching the form of the gymnastic to the school song’, ‘Matching’ and ‘Partially matching’ together accounted for 97.4% of the results with no variation in the tendency for self-conscious learning. With regard to the ‘Desire to repeat the experiment’, there was a higher tendency among those who displayed a higher level of self-conscious learning. With regard to the ‘Practice of original school gymnastic outside class’, the most common results were ‘After getting up’, ‘To change my mood’ and ‘Organized gymnastic’. These results suggest that the J-Women’s University gymnastic may be highly beneficial.