Objective: Our paper aims at describing the physical activity levels among college going students of Lucknow.Methods: The study was conducted at Kalicharan PG College, University of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. A sample of 60 students was drawn using purposive sampling. Data were collected based on the "short form IPAQ questionnaire. Data analysis was performed in accordance with the recommendations of the international physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ-SF) toolkit.Results: A sum of 60 humanities students took part in the study. The age range of participants was 17 to 24 years. In fact finding (20%) Humanities students were considered Sedentary (category-I), 56.56% were found low active (category-II), 23.33% participant were fall under moderate active (category-III), 8.33% participants were fall under Active (category-IV), 6.66% and rest of 5% participants were found in high active (category-V).Conclusions: The study shows that this is worth considering some participants do not achieve the recommended level of physical activity, which indicates tightness concern for public health. The findings point to the need to promote behavior change activities physical activity in the study population.
Mukesh Kumar Mishra (Sat,) studied this question.