Table 3.
Female college students’ exercise frequency and duration
(Mean values and standard deviations or percentages)
| NMs (n 101) | OMs (n 101) | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | |
| Exercise (d/week) | 3·24 | 1·91 | 3·07 | 1·90 | 3·15 | 1·91 |
| Exercise (min/d) | 62·3 | 37·7 | 58·0 | 40·8 | 60·2 | 39·3 |
| Exercise (min/week) | 240 | 189 | 212 | 208 | 226 | 199 |
| <120 min/week (min/week)* | 26·1 | 37·6 | 7·2 | 16·6 | 16·7 | 26·9 (28) |
| Percentage | 23 | 33 | 28 | |||
| 120–210 min/week (min/week) | 187·6 | 93·0 (33) | 176·0 | 77·8 | 181·8 | 93·0 |
| Percentage | 33 | 26 | 30 | |||
| >210 min/week (min/week) | 388·2 | 93·0 | 397·6 | 80·9 | 392·9 | 93·0 |
| Percentage | 44 | 41 | 42 | |||
NMs, nutrition major students; OMs, non-nutrition major students.
*
NMs recorded higher average exercise time compared with OMs in the category of <120 min/week (P < 0·05, n 202; non-paired t tests).