Influence of Walking, Jogging and Running Programme on Body Fat

Authors Name(s): Dr. K. Sekarbabu

Abstract

The goal of the present study was to find out the influence of walking, jogging and running training programme on percentage of body fat in middle aged men. To achieve this study, forty men staff members are working in various sector at Cuddalore were selected as subjects and their age ranged between 35 to 45 years. They were divided into four groups, each group consisting of 10 subjects, the first group underwent walking programme, the second group underwent jogging programme, the third group underwent running programme and the fourth group acted as control and did not participate any systematic training programme. The training schedule for all experimental groups were 3 days a week for 12 weeks. The selected criterion variable namely percentage of body fat was assessed before and after the training period. The collected data were statistically analyzed by using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). When the F ratio of the adjusted post-test mean was found to be significant, Scheffe’s post hoc test was employed to find out the paired mean difference. The level of significance was set at 0.05 level. From the results of the study found that the twelve weeks of walking, jogging and running training programme have significantly decreased the percentage of body fat in all the three experimental groups as compared to the control group. But there was no significant difference in percentage of body fat among the three experimental groups.

Keywords: Walking, Jogging, Running, Training and Percentage of Body Fat.

Please cite this article as:  Dr. K. Sekarbabu. Influence of Walking, Jogging and Running Programme on Body Fat. International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 2014, 1, 4(24), 103 – 106.