Effects of Aerobic Training and Jump Rope Training on Muscular Endurance (Upper Body) of Overweight Children

The purpose of study was to find out the effects of aerobic training and jump rope training on muscular endurance (upper body) of overweight children. To achieve the purpose of the study, thirty overweight school boys from different classes who studied at different school in and around, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu were selected as subject at random. Their age group range between 11 to 15 years. The study was formulated as pre and posttest random group design, in which thirty subject were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n=10, AT) underwent aerobic training, the experimental group-2 (n=10, JRF) underwent jump rope training and group 3 served as control group (n=10, CG) did not undergo any specific training. In this study, two training programme were adopted as independent variable, i.e., aerobic training and jump rope training. The muscular endurance (upper body) was selected as dependent variable and it tested by push-ups; the performance of the boys was recorded in numbers. The selected two treatment group’s namely aerobic training and jump rope training were performed five days days in a week for the period of six weeks, as per the stipulated training program. The muscular endurance (upper body) was tested before and after the training period. The collected pre and post data was critically analyzed with apt statistical tool of one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), for observed the significant adjusted post-test mean difference of three groups with respect to muscular endurance (upper body). The Scheffe’s post hoc test was used to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups. To test the hypothesis 0.05 level of significant was fixed in this study.