International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences 10(2): 166-172, 2022 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100205 University Students' Daily Activities and Physical Fitness during COVID-19 Pandemic Nur Syahadati Retno Panenggak 1,* , Nurhasan 1 , Muchamad Arif Al Ardha 1,2 , Panji Bana 1 , Kolektus Oky Ristanto 1 , Ainun Zulfikar Rizki 1 , Rizki Satrio Utomo 1 , Chung Bing Yang 2 , Wei Jhe Lin 2 1 Sport Science Faculty, State University of Surabaya, Surabaya, 60213, East Java, Indonesia 2 Hua Shih College of Education, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng Township, 974 Hualien County, Taiwan Received January 19, 2022; Revised February 26, 2022; Accepted March 27, 2022 Cite This Paper in the following Citation Styles (a): [1] Nur Syahadati Retno Panenggak, Nurhasan, Muchamad Arif Al Ardha, Panji Bana, Kolektus Oky Ristanto, Ainun Zulfikar Rizki, Rizki Satrio Utomo, Chung Bing Yang, Wei Jhe Lin , "University Students' Daily Activities and Physical Fitness during COVID-19 Pandemic," International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 166 - 172, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100205. (b): Nur Syahadati Retno Panenggak, Nurhasan, Muchamad Arif Al Ardha, Panji Bana, Kolektus Oky Ristanto, Ainun Zulfikar Rizki, Rizki Satrio Utomo, Chung Bing Yang, Wei Jhe Lin (2022). University Students' Daily Activities and Physical Fitness during COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Human Movement and Sports Sciences, 10(2), 166 - 172. DOI: 10.13189/saj.2022.100205. Copyright©2022 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract This study aims to evaluate university students' daily activities and the effect of physical activity on physical fitness, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research used comparative and correlational research methods. Thirty research samples consisted of 13 junior year university students and 17 senior year university students were selected by the purposive sampling method. Every student was monitored for their daily activities for one week and categorized into sports, college, organization, and other activities. Physical fitness was measured using the MFT test to measure the VO 2 Max in ml/kg/min units. The data analysis results showed no significant difference between junior and senior semester students in VO 2 Max, physical exercise, organizational activities, lecture activities, sleeping, and other activities. There was a significant difference in VO 2 Max and physical exercises (sig < 0.05) between genders. Male students spent more time exercising (17.87 ± 11.1) than female students (10.80 ± 6.04). Furthermore, male students had a higher average VO 2 Max (42.38 ± 7.53) than female students (29.36 ± 6.07). Based on the regression analysis results, there is a significant value between physical exercises and sleeping toward VO 2 Max capacity (sig. < 0.05). Keywords Physical Fitness, Higher Education, Physical Activities 1. Introduction Physical fitness can be used as an indicator of a person's health [1] because it is closely related to health and quality of life [2]. Physical fitness has at least two health-related domains, such as cardiorespiratory capacity and body composition [3]. However, other components of physical fitness include body composition, muscle endurance, muscle strength, agility, and flexibility [4]. Balance, coordination, reaction time, and speed are components of physical fitness in performing motor skills [5]. Good physical fitness will support cognitive function and quality of life [6]. The physical fitness component associated with academic achievement is cardiorespiratory fitness [7]. Physical fitness also positively impacts motor skills [8], for example, the flexibility component, which relates to maximum joint range of motion without causing injury [9]. Agility is a physical fitness component in changing the direction of body position quickly [10]. Strength is also a critical component influenced by physical fitness [11]. VO 2 Max describes as a level of physical fitness,