Safe Exercises with Personal Trainers Project and Sports Science Voluntary (ASA Punsuk) Project (Mental and Physical Health)

Chulalongkorn University is concerning community health and inviting people to do simple exercises during the Covid-19 pandemic. According to surveys conducted by the Department of Disease Control, the Minister of Health Public, since 2015, Thai people tend to be exposed to increasing risk behavior of non-communicable diseases and injuries. It is found that 30.5 percent of the people have overweight, 7.5 percent are obese, 21.3 percent have smoking habits, and 36.2 percent are alcoholic. Most of them are likely to be workers and the elderly who lack exercises and nutritional food consuming.

Chulalongkorn University, situated at the center of Bangkok and equipped with public utilities aiding sports science’s education, in addition to fully providing outdoors grounds for sports, gymnasiums, swimming pools, a huge, modern indoors stadium, a fitness center for education, sports festival competitions, recreations and entertainments to students and staff, allows community surrounding its area to profit those public utilities and outdoors workout equipment. Simultaneously, it is promoting both mental and physical health by inviting people in Patumwan District and nearby to work out properly regarding sports science’s principles via “Safe Exercises with Personal Trainers Project”. The Faculty of Sports Science willingly provides 3 personal trainers for educating workout performance and 9 trainers for giving nutritional advice appropriately and efficiently for people with interest.

Besides, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, individuals are exposed to infections, especially the elderly with more tendency due to aging physical degeneration; they have risk to physical problems and need more care. As a result, they are caused many aspects of impact including exercises, nutritional grocery shopping, as well as the feeling of diminishment. For this reason, the Faculty of Sports Science, Chulalongkorn University, has launched “Sports Science Voluntary (ASA Punsuk) Project (Mental and Physical Health),” offering 8 students to advise 65 of the elderly on exercise activities applying sports science knowledge online. Furthermore, they apply Thai arts and culture to simple exercises via workout tapes so as to create amusement and the feeling of self-value and sociableness among the elderly during the social-distancing situation by the government’s code.