A comparative study on the impacts of training on hip circumference of college girls

Abstract

Overweight as one of the today’s most important public health issues, which is escalating as a global epidemic. The purpose of the present study was an endeavor to the best method of handling overweight. Out of ninety-six selected participants from fluvio coastal zone of west Bengal, India on the basis of BMI, eighty overweight girls (average age: 20) were consider for the study. The subjects were divided into four groups (20 for each group) randomly. Separately designed 12 weeks training programme for WTG, ATG and GCTG was applied on the subjects at morning between 8.00 am to 9.15am for three alternative days per week. After every four weeks, total load was increased. Pre and post test on the groups were conducted to measure the training effect on Hip Circumference of the subjects. The collected data were statistically analyzed by using the analysis of Co-variance (p