Effect of Aerobic Dance and Suryanamaskar on Selected Low Physical Variables on School Children of Kerala State

Abstract :

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of aerobic dance and suryanamaskar on the selected low physical low variables on school children of Kerala state. To achieve the purpose of the present study, forty five school children from Kerala state, India were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 12 to 14 years. The subjects were divided into three equal groups of fifteen each. Group I acted as Experimental Group I (Aerobic dance training), Group II acted as Experimental Group II (Suryanamaskar) Group III acted as Control Group. The requirement of the experiment procedures, testing as well as exercise schedule was explained to the subjects so as to get full co-operation of the effort required on their part and prior to the administration of the study. The study was formulated as a true random group design, consisting of a pre-test and post-test. Forty five school children from Kerala state, India was selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 12 to 14 years. The subjects (N=45) were randomly assigned to three equal groups of fifteen subjects each. Pre test was conducted for all the subjects on selected low physical variables. This initial test scores formed as pre test scores of the subjects. The groups were assigned as Experimental Group I, Experimental Group II and Control Group in an equivalent manner. Experimental Group I was exposed to aerobic dance training, Experimental Group II was exposed to suryanamaskar practices and Control Group was not exposed to any experimental training other than their regular daily activities. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the forty five subjects were tested on their physical variables. This final test scores formed as post test scores of the subjects. The pre test and post test scores were subjected to statistical analysis using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significance among the mean differences, whenever the ‘F’ ratio for adjusted test was found to be significant. Scheffe’s post hoc test was used. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. The experimental training groups had shown better performance on physical variables than the control group.

Author Name : Rakhi Ramakrishnan & Dr. A Shenbagavalli

Keywords: Aerobic Training, Suryanamaskar, School, Kerala.