EFFECTS OF THREE DIFFERENT TRAINING PROGRAMMES ON ABDOMINAL ADIPOSITY OF OVERWEIGHT COLLEGE GIRLS

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) describes overweight as one of the today's most important public health problems, which is escalating as a global epidemic. The purpose of the present study was an endeavor to the best method of handling overweight.Out of 96 selected participants from fluvio coastal zone of west Bengal,India on the basis of BMI,80 overweight girls (average age:20) were consider for the study.The subjects were divided into four groups (20 for each group) randomly namely Weight Training Group (WTG), Aerobic Training Group (ATG), Graded Circuit Training Group (GCTG) and Control Group (CG).Separately designed 12 weeks training programme for WTG,ATG and GCTG was applied on the subjects at morning between 8.00 am to 9.15am for three alternative days per week. After every four weeks,total load was increased.Pre and post test on the groups were conducted to measure the training effect on Abdominal Adiposity of the subjects. The collected data were statistically analyzed by using the analysis of Covariance (p<0.05) to determine differences, the LSD test was applied as a post hoc test to find out the paired mean differences. From the obtaining result, it was concluded that weight training, aerobics and graded circuit training are found to be effective for reducing Abdominal Adiposity of overweight college girls.