Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of brisk walking and jogging exercise on selected health related physical fitness variables among middle aged men. To facilitate the study, 45 middle aged men were selected from Bharath Walking Club, Nehru Stadium, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. The age of the participants ranged between 40 and 50 years. The selected participants were divided into two experimental groups and a control group with fifteen participants (n=15) in each group. Experimental Group I (BWG=15) underwent brisk walking training, Group II (JG=15) underwent jogging training and Group III acted as control group (CG=15). All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the 12 weeks treatment in progression health related physical fitness variables such as cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength, and muscular endurance. The data collected from the three groups before and after the experimental period were statistically examined to find out the significant improvement using the ‘t’ test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Whenever the ‘F’ ratio was found to be significant, Scheffe’s test was used as post-hoc test to determine which of the paired means differed significantly. In all cases the criterion for statistical significance was set at 0.05 level of confidence. The result reveals that the both experimental groups showed significant improvement on selected health related physical fitness variables.
Author Name : L. Mahalingam, Dr.M.Rajkumar
Keywords: Brisk Walking, Jogging, Health Related Physical Fitness.
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