Effect of Remote Exercise Education on Psychological Status and Body Awareness

The curfew restrictions applied during the pandemic period have had negative physical and psychological effects on people all over the world. Therefore, the aim of the study is examining the effect of distance exercise education on psychological state and body awareness. Twenty-one sedentary women aged 20-30 years participated in the study. Exercises were carried out for 6 weeks, 3 days a week, 1 hour daily. The exercise program sent to the participants digitally consists of a total of 8 moves: plank, crunch, leg raise, flutter kicks, mountain climbers, arms-high partial sit up, heel touches, half push up. 10 minutes of warm-up at the beginning of each exercise and 5 minutes of active cooling with 5 minutes of stretching at the end. All participants had the Body Awareness Questionarre (BAQ) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) filled digitally 6 weeks before and 6 weeks later. SPSS 20.00 program was used to analyze the data. The shapiro wilk test was used to determine whether the data showed normal distribution. Wilcoxon signed ranks test was used as the data did not show normal distribution in the analyzes. Significance level was accepted as p < 0.05. A statistically significant difference was found in all data as a result of the pre-test and post-test comparison of body weight, BDI and BAQ values (p < 0.05). As a result, it can be said that the exercise program applied to sedentary individuals has a positive effect on psychological state and body awareness.