Effect of Aerobic and Indigenous Training on Selected Physiological Variables

It has been rightly said that ‘Sound Mind in a Sound Body’. One must be physically fit to has mantle toughness and to perform all his duties well. In this modern era, the general physical fitness level, health level and average age have been found to be reduced. Hence, it is really important to have physically fit youth. Resistance training increases physical activity (Hunter – 2004), many researches suggested that regular physical exercise improves quality of life and health of an individual (Penedo – 2005). Children at young age should be engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activities and exercises for about an hour or so (William – 2005). Youth who participate in regular physical activities are having improvement in their overall health status (Darren – 2006).

In this study, the researchers tried to develop a special training program of aerobic activities and indigenous activities, which can be performed with minimum resources and to examine its effect on selected physiological variables.

The present study aimed to study the effect of aerobic and indigenous activities training program on selected physiological variables.

Selection of Subjects: In this study total 45 college level female students were randomly selected as the subject for the study. These selected subjects were further divided into two experimental groups and one control groups, 15 students in each group. Two experimental groups, Group A and Group B, were given training of aerobic activity and indigenous activity respectively. Group – C was treated as the control group.

Selection of Variables: Resting heart rate, vital capacity, and resting respiratory rate were selected as the physiological variables in this study.

Design of the Study: Pre and Post-test Design was selected as a research design of this study. Group – A participated in an aerobic activities training program whereas Group – B participated in a indigenous activities training program. These specially designed program was of 08 weeks and subjects were given training of the particular training for five days a week.

Table – I

ANCOVA table of Vital Capacity

*Significant at 0.05 level,

The analysis of co-variance for vital capacity was not significant in case of pre-test means from which it is clear that the pre-test mean does not differ significantly and that the random assignment of subjects to the two experimental groups was quite successful. The post-test means of all the three groups yielded an F-ratio of 4.251 which was significant at 0.05 level of significance. The difference between the adjusted post test means was found significant as the obtained F-ratio was 4.358 with significance level 0.05.

Table – II

Pair wise Comparison of Vital Capacity

The above table reveals that significant difference was found between aerobic activities and indigenous activities groups with mean difference of 0.534. Whereas no significant difference was found between aerobic activity groups and control group and indigenous activities and control groups also.

Table – III

ANCOVA table of resting heart rate

The analysis of co-variance for resting heart rate was not significant in case of pre-test means from which it is clear that the pre-test mean does not differ significantly and that the random assignment of subjects to the two experimental groups was quite successful. The post-test means of all the three groups yielded an F-ratio of 3.416 which was significant at 0.05 level of significance. The difference between the adjusted post test means was found significant as the obtained F-ratio was 11.661 with significance level 0.05.

Table – IV

Pair wise Comparison of resting heart rate

The above table reveals that significant difference was found between aerobic activity group and indigenous activity group with mean difference of 7.058, and indigenous activity group and control with mean difference of 6.685. Whereas no significant difference was found between both of the experimental groups.

Table – V

ANCOVA table of resting respiratory rate

The analysis of co-variance for Resting respiratory rate was not significant in pre-test means from which it is clear that the pre-test mean does not differ significantly and that the random assignment of subjects to the two experimental groups was quite successful. The post-test means of all the three groups yielded an F-ratio of 1.253 which was not significant at 0.0.5 level of significance. The difference between the adjusted post test means was found not significant as the obtained F-ratio was 2.238 with significance level 0.05.

With the background of this study, it can be concluded that the specially designed training program of aerobic activities and indigenous activities training significantly improved heart rate and vital capacity. Whereas there was no significant change observed in resting breathing rate.