The Effect of Anaerobic and Aerobic Exercise on Endurance and Non Endurance Athletes on Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)

Abstract

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a symptom of discomfort that could happen 7-10 days before menstruation. This symptoms can be affect physiologically and psychologically. The purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of anaerobic and aerobic exercise in endurance and non-endurance female athletes in related to the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) either athletes or non-athletes. The population consisted of all female athletes from various sports clubs in Padang as many 140 person, purposive sampling technique was used to take 70 female athletes who have premenstrual syndrome. Questionnaires and interviews is used to collect the data and t-test is used to analysis data on the level of significance α = 0.05. The result of this research are; there is no difference effect between aerobic and anaerobic exercise in non-endurance athletes with PMS (ρ = 0. 242 > α 0.05); there is difference effect between aerobic and anaerobic exercise on endurance athletes with PMS (ρ = 0.00 < α 0.05). It can be concluded that the aerobic exercise can reduce the symptoms of P MS better than anaerobic exercise.