Effect of circuit training and endurance training on selected variables of school obese boys

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of circuit and endurance training on selected variables of school obese boys. To achieve this study, the investigator has randomly assigned ninety (N=90) obese school students, age range of the students were between 16 and18. They were equally divided into three groups such as Endurance Training (ET), Circuit Training (CT) &Control Group (CG) and recruited subjects have undergone 12 weeks of ET & CT. Cycling was considered as Endurance Training and Circuit Training consisted resistance and aerobic training. Control group does not engage any kind of physical activity during this study. Pre test and post test data’s were collected from following variables such as Resting Heart Rate (RHR), Body Mass Index (BMI), High Density Lipoprotein (HDL), and VO2max. T test was administered to find out the significant differences between pre test and post test. ET group had significant differences on all the variables and CT group also had significant differences excepted HDL but Control group does not have any significant level so further ANOVA was used to find out the significant on each variables among groups. There, each variable had significant level of differences among groups. It revealed that ET group had significant level of improvement on RHR, HDL and VO2max compared to CT and CG but BMI level showed significant level of improvement in ET and CT compare to CG therefore they can consider the endurance training an appropriate and non medication training package to prevent the cardiovascular disease and obesity related disease.