Since the variety choices of exercises is a factor to help people compose regular exercise behaviour, it is necessary to verify the effects of different exercises on physical fitness. To investigate the exercise-intensity and the physical effect of shuttlecock playing, 16 normal body weight young male volunteers were randomly divided into shuttlecock playing (SCP, n=8, 22.0±2.0 year-old, 66.2±8.6 kg) and control (n=8, 21.9±2.5 year-old, 64.9±9.0 kg) groups. The SCP undertook a 12-week shuttlecock-playing program, but the control group did not attend any special exercise activities. The program was arranged as the following: SCP accomplished 3 times per week in any different day, and subjects involved 3 continuous cycles of "play 10 minutes, off 5 minutes" protocol to exercise for 30 minutes every time. The physical fitness parameters of both groups were measured pre-and post-exercise training. Data were analysed with unpaired students' t-test (inter-groups) and paired students' t-test (within-groups). A α value was set at .05. The abdominal skin fold, systolic blood pressure, continuing work time, and hip joint flexibility of SCP were improved significantly after the 12-week program. However, only the reduction percentages in abdominal skin fold and systolic blood pressure of SCP were significantly higher than those of the control group after exercise training. Thus, it was concluded that our 12-week shuttlecock-playing program was a low-to-medium intensity aerobic exercise and could partially promote the physical fitness for young males in body composition and aerobic fitness but not lower limb muscle strength/endurance and body flexibility.