Desarrollo de la actividad física de los estudiantes debachillerato a través de las redes sociales YouTube yFacebook

Abstract

Abstract: The objective of this research was to find out if the social networks YouTube and Facebook help students to develop physical activity, taking into account that with the presence of the covid 19 pandemic, education changed from face-to-face to virtual, where students they had to coexist and adapt to technology, being the reason for putting exercise aside. Said investigation was directed to the high school students of the Sarmiento Educational Unit and to obtain data, a pre-test and post-test was applied, first of diagnosis and then of verification of knowledge, to identify if the videos created with exercise routines and posted on YouTube and Facebook motivate students to practice physical activity. With the results obtained, an analysis of non-parametric Wilcoxon tests of two related samples in SPSS was carried out, in order to verify the proposed hypothesis. Concluding according to the results that students feel attracted and encouraged to develop the practice of physical activity with the help of social networks.