Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of aerobic dance on selected physiological and biochemical variables among obese adolescent girls. To achieve the purpose of this study fifteen students from Vidya Mandir Institute of Technology, Perundurai, Erode were randomly selected as subjects. They were clinically confirmed cases of obesity and their age ranged between 17 and 19 years. The selected subjects were made to undergo aerobic dance training for the period of 6 weeks. The subjects were free to withdraw their consent in case of feeling any discomfort during the period of their participation, but there was no dropout during the study. The following physiological variables such as resting pulse rate, vital capacity and respiratory rate and biochemical variables such as Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) and Triglycerides were selected as dependent variables. The selected physiological and biochemical variables were tested with standardized tests. The pre test data were collected before the training programme and the post-test data were collected after the training programme. In both the cases the data were collected in a single day at the same time. Through this study the authors have found out that the selected aerobic dance training improve the selected physiological variables such as resting pulse rate in 8.5%, Respiratory rate in 9.26% and vital capacity in 19.5%, and biochemical variables such as LDL in 2.84%, HDL 19.64% and triglycerides in 4.94%. Hence the authors can recommend the aerobic dance to all the obese adolescent girls for improving the selected physiological and biochemical variables among them.
Author Name : R. Umamaheswari & Dr. A. Mahaboobjan
Keywords: Aerobic Dance, Obese, Adolescent Girls, Physiological, Bio-chemical.
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