Effect of aerobic dance training on body composition and cardio respiratory endurance among obese

Abstract

Dance aerobics is a fun activity that helps in strengthening your body, and gives you energy to carry out your day-to-day activities effectively and efficiently. The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of aerobic dance training on selected health related fitness variables among obese men. 30 subjects were selected from MIET College Trichy, Tamilnadu. The subject’s age were ranged from 18 to 22 years. The selected subjects were divided into 2 groups with 15 subjects in each group one is experimental group and another one is control group. The training periods of the experimental were eight weeks, weekly 5 days with 60 minutes. Control group did not undergo any training programme other than their routine work. The data were collected on health related fitness variables namely body composition, cardio respiratory endurance for each groups before the experimental period(pre-test), after eight weeks of training(post-test) respectively. In order to test the effect of training, the collected data from each groups before, during and after experimentation on health related fitness variables were statistically analyzed by using dependent‘t’ test. In all the cases the level of confidence is fixed at 0.05 to test the significance.