Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of core stability swiss ball exercises on leg strength and cardio respiratory endurance among sedentary men. To achieve this purpose of the study, thirty sedentary men working in various departments at Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects at random. The selected subjects were divided into two equal groups of fifteen subjects each, such as core stability swiss ball exercises group and control group. The group I underwent swiss ball exercises for three days per week for twelve weeks. Group II acted as control who did not participate any special training programmes apart from their regular routine office works as per their nature of designation. The following variables namely leg strength and cardio respiratory endurance were selected as criterion variables. All the subjects of two groups were tested on selected dependent variables at prior to and immediately after the training programme. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the significant difference, if any among the groups. The .05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the “F” ratio obtained by the analysis of covariance, which was considered as an appropriate. The results of the study revealed that there was a significant difference among core stability swiss ball exercises group and control group on leg strength and cardio respiratory endurance. And also it was found that there was a significant improvement on leg strength and cardio respiratory endurance due to core stability swiss ball exercises.
Author Name : P. Balaji, Dr. D. Rajkumar & Dr. P. Karthikeyan
Keywords: Core Stability, Swiss Ball, Strength, Endurance, Sedentary Men.
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