ผลของการออกกำลังกายเป็นกลุ่มด้วยการเดินวิ่งที่มีผลต่อสุขสมรรถนะในเยาวชนหญิงที่มีน้ำหนักเกิน / กิจจา ถนอมสิงหะ = Effects of group exercise with walking-running on health-related physical fitness in overweight female youths /Gidja Tanomsing-ha
The purpose of this investigation was to study the effects of group exercise with walking-running on health-related physical fitness in overweight female youths. Fifty-two female youths were students of Chulalongkorn University (ages 18 - 24 years). They had been purposively selected for this study, and divided into two groups which were experimental group and control group. The experimental group had to undergo the program of group exercise with walking-running. The control group had to ordinarily exercise their programs which were not related to walking-running such as swimming, cycling, aerobic dance, tennis, badminton and so on. The duration of training was ten weeks, three days per week, with 30 - 50 minutes for one session. The obtained data were analyzed in term of mean and standard deviation. The pretest and posttest after ordinary exercise measured by paired t-test in the control group. The comparison between groups was analyzed by Analysis of Covariance and One-way Analysis of Variance with Repeated Measures was used to compare with in group as well as the LSD method was used for multiple comparison. The statistical significant level was set up at the 0.05 level. After 10 weeks, the results indicated that the experimental group which received the group exercise with walking-running was significantly improved more than the control group at the .05 level (body weight, fat mass, waistline, flexibility, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and cardiorespiratory fitness). The muscle mass showed no significant difference with the control group after 10 weeks. It was concluded that the program of group exercise with walking-running could improve health-related physical fitness and suitable for overweight female youths who were not exercise regularly with low physical fitness and suitable for those who want to make friend in body weight loss activities.