The step aerobics is a method which allows us to do aerobics exercises for the purpose of getting a cardio-respiratory reaction from the concept of lifting your body weight. Step aerobics was innovated by Gin Miller around 1989.The purpose study was to investigate the influence of step aerobics training on cardiovascular endurance and explosive power of college men for the period of 12 weeks. To achieve the purpose 30 college men were randomly selected from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Coimbatore as subjects. They were divided into two groups. The group I was considered as experimental group and group II was considered as control group. The experimental group - I was given step aerobics training for five days per week and the control group was not given any exercise. The experimental group was given training for the period of 12 weeks of step aerobics training. The criterion variables were chosen namely cardiovascular endurance and explosive power for this study. All the dependent variables were assessed before and after the training period of 12 weeks. The collected data was analyzed by Independent‘t’ test and level of significance was set at 0.05. The results of the study delivered that the cardiovascular endurance and explosive power were significantly improved due to the influence of step aerobics training for the period of 12 weeks.

Keywords:  Step aerobics training, Cardiovascular endurance and explosive power