Effect of Aerobic Dance in Improving Physiological and Motor Qualities

Author Names(s): Raghavendra. R & Dr. S. Suthakar

Abstract

Dance is an art, with the expressive entity of creative movement is vital to the development of the total individual. Aerobic dance is essential to healthy cardio-vascular system.  Briefly, aerobic dance is an activity that can be sustained for an extended period of time without building an oxygen debt in the muscles.   It is a type of dance that overloads the heart and lungs and causes them to work harder than they do when a person is at rest. Aerobic literally means “With air”. The main purpose of the study is to analyze the effect of aerobic dance in improving physiological and motor qualities. To achieve the purpose of the study 30 students were randomly selected from different colleges of Mysore district. Their age was ranged from 18 to 25 years. The selected students participated in aerobic dance program for four days in a week totally 12 weeks. The data was collected on Resting heart rate, cardiovascular endurance, agility and explosive power. The data was collected before and after the training periods. Thus the data collected was subjected to t-test to check the significance. The level of significance was set to 0.05. The results of the study showed the significant effect of aerobic dance in improving the selected physiological and motor qualities.

Keywords: Aerobic dance, agility, cardio-vascular endurance.

Cite this article as: Raghavendra. R & Dr. S. Suthakar (2018). Effect of Aerobic Dance in Improving Physiological and Motor Qualities. International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 5, 6(2), 7-9.