EFFECT OF PILATES CALISTHENICS AND COMBINED PILATES AND CALISTHENICS EXERCISE ON

FLEXIBILITY & SPEED OF SCHOOL BOYS

Mr. Rajeev Srivastava

Abstract

The purpose of study was to determine the effect of Pilates Exercise Calisthenics Exercise and Combination of Pilates and Calisthenics Exercise on Flexibility & Speed on School Boys. To achieve the purpose of the study Sixty (60) school boys studying in Raj English School of Sarnath, Varanasi, and U.P. region were selected as subject at randomly and their range of age is between 14 to 17years. The study was confined to the following flexibility and speed variables. Flexibility was measured by sit & reach test and was recorded in inch. Speed was measured by 50 yard dash test and time recorded in second. To find out the variance in the selected criterion variables due to the application of independent variables, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was applied and the level of significance was set at the 0.05 on each criterion variables. The above result indicated that experimental group (Pilates, Calisthenics and Combined exercise group) were significantly improved the flexibility and speed, when compared with the control group. It was also indicated that combined experimental group IV had significantly improved the flexibility and speed greater than the other two experimental groups when compared with the control group.

Keywords: Pilates exercise, Calisthenics exercises, Flexibility and Speed