Impact of aerobic dance on body fat percentage and body weight of school boys

The purpose of the research was to study the impact of aerobic dance on body fat percentage and body weight of school boys. In order to achieve these purpose 60 school boys were selected from TAT kalanilayam middle school, periyanaickenpalayam, Coimbatore. The 60 subjects were randomly selected and divided into two equal groups of 30 subjects each. The group I was called as experimental group and group II was called as control group. The age groups of the subjects were between 11 and 14 years old. In this study, aerobics dance training was given to the experimental group for a period of 8 weeks. The selected criterion variables namely body fat percentage and body weights were measured through body fat scale. The pretests were taken from the subjects on the selected criterion variables before administrating the training to the subjects. At the end of the 8 weeks of the training period post tests on the selected criterion variables were taken. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 level of confidence. And the significant differences between the means of pre and posttests of experimental and control groups were found out by paired “t” test. The analysis of the data revealed that there was a significant improvement on the selected variables namely body fat percentage and body weight of school boys by aerobic dance.