Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effect of low impact aerobic exercise and mixed impact aerobic exercise on lowering percentage of body fat. Many people have difficulty to stay away from overweight (obesity). It is widely known that obesity is commonly caused by over fat in the body. The populations of this research were female students of Faculty of Sport Science, Universitas Negeri Padang, while the samples were female students Department of Coaching Education. 20 female students were selected using purposive sampling technique to be the samples. Group 1 was treated with low impact aerobic exercises and group 2 was treated with mixed impact aerobic exercise. A total of 16 exercise sessions were given to the groups as treatments. The instrument used to find out the decrease of fat was Fitness Calculator. Data analysis and interpretation indicate that low impact aerobic exercise can lower body fat percentage (t=4.910, p < 0.05), mixed impact aerobic exercise can lower body fat percentage (t=5.110, p < 0.05), and there is no difference between the effect of low impact aerobic exercises and the mixed impact aerobic exercise on declining the percentage of body fat (t=1.020, p > 0.05).
Highlights
Advancement of the science and technology today is found to be very helpful for many aspects of life
This study aimed to investigate the effect of low impact aerobic exercise and mixed impact aerobic exercise on lowering percentage of body fat
Low impact aerobic exercise is defined as a low movement exercises accompanied by a light beat slow music, while mixed impact aerobics are aerobics mixed with low impact and high-impact aerobics and musical accompaniment is a mixture of slow and fast music
Summary
Advancement of the science and technology today is found to be very helpful for many aspects of life. It can make work more effective and efficient. It can be bad for health and fitness that may lead to hypokinesia (lack of movement). Many people are dependent of transport to go anywhere including going to higher floor of a building using elevator. This condition is worsen if they often consume high-calorie foods because it may cause imbalance of calories (more calories in than out) and it may lead to obesity (overweight). Moore says that "health problem caused by obesity are cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension and coronary heart disease, and respiratory problems
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