Effect of Aquatic based Endurance Training for Enhancing Cardiovascular Endurance in Normal Individuals

The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of land based endurance training and aquatic based endurance training for enhancing endurance in normal individuals. This study is to find out the efficacy of aquatic base training in comparison with land based training in enhancing endurance in healthy individuals.

30 subjects were divided equally into 2 groups. Group A underwent land based training while Group B underwent aquatic based training. The outcome measures consist of RPP (rate pressure product), REC HR (recovery heart rate), RHR (resting heart rate) and 6MWD (6 minute walking distance) was measured before (pre-training) and after four weeks of endurance training. Descriptive analysis was used for data analysis.

In this study, land based training showed a mean improvement of 657.6 +58.451, 4.2 + 3.5, 3.2 + 0.77 and 35.4 + 23.35 for RPP, REC HR, RHR and 6MWD respectively, which was statistically significant at P = 0.05 and aquatic based training showed a mean improvement of 649+96.96, 5.4+1.63, 3.6+0.5 and 32.33+6.51 for RPP, REC HR, RHR and 6MWD, which was statistically significant at P = 0.05. The average difference between land based and aquatic based training were compared and it was found t = 0.0988, 1.8035, 1.0623 and 0.4963 for RPP, REC HR, RHR and 6MWD which had no significant difference (p =0.05) for enhancing endurance in normal individuals. Only the recovery heart rate was significant at P = 0.05

The results of this study show that both land and aquatic base training are effective and that there is no significant difference between these two mediums for enhancing endurance in normal individuals.