COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CIRCUIT AND AEROBIC DANCE TRAINING IN NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND BODY FAT OF OVERWEIGHT URBAN SCHOOL GIRLS

Abstract

Centering upon the suffering from chronic energy deciency due to overweight and high body fat is very common problem in urban school girls of our society. In present days, in this pandemic situation, a compulsion practice and system of staying inside the home and intake of more amount of food without having any physical exercise, gives the gift birth of overweight status of our children. From this point of view, the researcher intends to investigate a comparative study of circuit and aerobic dance training programmes to reduce body fat and for adopting heathy weight and BMI and also to investigate which programme is more effective. Ninety, seventh and eight standard obese girls of Kalitala girls high school (N = 45) and Mission Girls High School (N = 45) mean age (13+1) years of Bankura district of West Bengal, India were randomly selected as the subjects for the study. For experimental purpose total ninety subjects were sub-divided systematically on the basis of over-weight status into three equal groups (n = 30). The circuit training and aerobic dance programs were randomly assigned to two groups which were designated as experimental groups: Group A (Circuit Training) and Group B (Aerobic Dance) and were imparted 12 weeks of circuit training and aerobic dance training programs, respectively whereas the remaining group was designated as the control group (Group C). Result showed that greater contributory effects of aerobic dance program in developing healthy BMI of overweight school girls than that of circuit training program.