Excess amount of fat in our body can make us over weight and these extra fat posses more of a burden because the excess fat might leads to a unhealthy states in our body and is detrimental to physical performance. Circuit training is an effective method of developing strength and endurance. Purpose of the study was to find out the effect of six weeks circuit training on body fat percentage in young adult women. A total of 36 female college students in between 21 to 30 years of age were randomly chosen as subjects for the present study. Among them 36 students were divided in two groups by means of randomization for the purpose of experimental design. G1 group (N=18) was considered as experimental group and G2 group (N=18) was considered as control group. G1 group was treated with six week circuit training and after six week both group were compared with appropriate statistics. True experimental group design was used in this study. The circuit training schedule was set up with the consultation of experts in the field of exercise science and trainer. There were six stations of exercise. First two weeks the exercise was performed with 40–50% load and every two week interval the load amount increased. Result revealed that t value of BF% for control group (t=0.552) was not significant (p<0.05) but t-value of BF% for experimental group between pre and post test mean (t=5.239) was significant statistically (p>0.05). Findings indicated clearly that well planned six week circuit training programme was very much effective to reduce excess body fat in adult women.
Body fat %, Circuit training, Exercise effect, Young adult women
