Abstract
Background and Objective: Recreational swimming is a good way to relax, while enjoying a full-body workout and is recommended for the prevention and treatment of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The present study compares the physical fitness in young freestyle swimmers practicing regularly and non-swimmers to measure the cardiovascular endurance. Materials and Methods: This Study was carried out at tertiary health centre of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai on medical students after the informed and written consent. Sixty male medical students of age group 18 25 years fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included. Their Physical Fitness Index was calculated. The data was analysed using student
Highlights
Introduction endurance with consistent aerobic exercisesSwimming is an effective exercise activity to Activities that require and develop develop cardiovascular endurance, because it cardiovascular endurance include aerobic causes body to use the aerobic energy system to fuel the movements
Students of the swimmers group were found to be of excellent category (PFI > 90)
Our study indicates that Physical fitness index of non-swimmers is poor to average (Mean Physical Fitness Index (PFI) 69.2 ± 7.7) whereas the swimmers have excellent PFI score (Mean PFI 100.8 ± 4.5)
Summary
The present Study was carried out at tertiary health centre of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai on medical students after the informed and written consent. Students with history of any valvular heart diseases, who have undergone any major surgery like abdominal, cardiac and students of age group 18 – 25 years fulfilling all the inclusion criteria were divided into two groups comprising study group, with 30 students who are swimmers, practicing for at least 3 months regularly with one session of 30-60 minutes duration per day and minimum three days in a week and a control group comprising of 30 students who are nonswimmers. There is statistically significant difference between Physical Fitness Index of the two groups (Table-3 and 4, Fig-1). Note: The Physical Fitness Index (PFI) in swimmers is significantly higher than in nonswimmers and is statistically significant. Table-5: Comparison of Physical Fitness Index in two groups in terms of excellent, good, average and poor by using "Chisquare test". Fig-1: Category-wise distribution of Swimmers and Non-Swimmers on the Basis of Physical Fitness Index
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