PENGARUH PELAKSANAAN BRAIN GYM TERHADAP PENINGKATAN KEBUGARAN JASMANI MURID SEKOLAH DASAR NEGERI POGUNG KIDUL SLEMAN, YOGYAKARTA

The physical fitness of Elementary school must keep to form human resources to be better. Brain Gym is packets of happiest simple movement to integrate all of brain parts. Based on theory Brain Gym movement can increase oxygen requirement in the body which is indirectly can increase physical fitness.
The goal of this study was to analyze the effect of Brain Gym toward the increasing of physical fitness for student elementary school. Cohort and analytic was used in this study. This research's subject are 49 students of Pogung Kidul Elementary School.
This research has done in Pogung Kidul Elementary School Yogyakarta field. It last from 8th until 31st August 2007. The intervention of Brain Gym for 5 — 10 minutes was used hooks-ups movement, cross crawl movement and brain button movement.
The measurement physical fitness done before and after intervention, where the measurement using Harvard Step Test chair. The data analyzed by paired t test is P-0,788. Because P>0,05 it means there is meaningless difference between physical fitness before and after doing Brain Gym. From the result of the study we can conclude that Brain Gym has less affect to increase of the physical fitness.