Empowering the mind and body: The impact of exercise on college women’s stress resilience and self-esteem

Abstract

Stress and self-esteem plays a vital role in the day to day life of every human, as it determines the fight or flight instinct of any concerns in the line of life. This study infers to the effect of exercise on stress and self-esteem of college women. A training program of 12 weeks which were assimilated by warm up followed by aerobic dance, whole body workouts and recreational games and culminated by cool down exercises. The programme was piloted to a group of 50(N=50) college women in the age group of 18-25 which was bifurcated to experimental and control group (N=25 each). The experimental group endured training for 60 minutes, thrice a week whereas the control group was following their normal folklore. The difference between pre-test and post-test results of experimental group and control group were appraised by T-test and the significance level was set at 0.05. The appraisal inferred that the experimental group projected an eloquent improvement in self-esteem and abatement in stress level. To conclude, physical training program integrates the self-esteem and decapitates the stress in college women.