Mr. Jignesh Pratapbhai Sathiya and Dr Nimeshkumar D. Chaudhari

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out whether there would be any significant improvement on selected variables as a result of floor aerobics and aerobics exercise. Ninety school boys were selected from Zenith Gujarati Medium School, Dabhoi Road, Pratapnagar, Vadodara, Gujarat. They were selected randomly as subjects. The selected subjects were of age group of 15 to 18 years. The subjects were randomly divided in to three groups of 30 subjects in each group. Group one acted as experimental group I and group two acted as experimental group -II and group three acted as control group. Group three underwent routine physical exercises and group I underwent floor aerobics training and group II underwent aerobics exercise training for eight weeks. The subjects were tested on selected criterion Physical Fitness variables, agility, flexibility, muscular power and physiological variables, resting pulse rate and breath holding time at prior to any immediately after the training period. The selected criterion variables such as agility were measuring by using shuttle run, flexibility was measured by sit and reach test, muscular power was measured by standing broad jump, resting pulse rate was measured by using stop watch, breath holding time was measured by using stop watch respectively. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant differences if any, between the experimental group and control group on selected criterion variables separately. In all the cases, 00.05 level of significance was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as an appropriate.

Keywords: Floor Exercise, Aerobic Exercises anaerobic exercise and Physical Fitness.