The Effects of Belly dance on Health related Physical Fitness and Body Composition in 20's and 30's women
Su-Jung Choi
Graduate School of Education
Pukyong National University
Directed by professor Koun-Soo Shin ph. D
Abstract
The purpose of this ...
The Effects of Belly dance on Health related Physical Fitness and Body Composition in 20's and 30's women
Su-Jung Choi
Graduate School of Education
Pukyong National University
Directed by professor Koun-Soo Shin ph. D
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to trial the Belly dance exercises on women in 20's to 30's for 12 weeks program and examine the outcomes on the participant's physical fitness, health related physical fitness and the body compositions. Furthermore, the database from this study contributes to the profound of support and introduce the Belly dance into our leisure activities.
The participants consist of twenty women living in B Metropolitan City, in good health aged from 20's to 30's. Ten participants have undertaken the Belly dance program, and ten others as the control group were examined and audited for the comparison.
Variables used in this study: grasping power, sit-ups, 1,200m running and trunk forward flexion, and the levels in body weight, body fat and muscular mass and abdominal fat.
The result of this study as below,
1.health related physical fitness
1) Muscular strength in exercise group level on Right hand grip strength decreased from 30.56±4.43kg to 30.38±3.95kg however, it did not show significant difference.
Muscular strength in exercise group level on Left hand grip strength increased from 30.41±4.62kg to 31.70±5.15kg however, it did not show significant difference.
2) Muscular endurance in exercise group level increased from 23.38±11.58times/min to 26.00±11.24times/min and this analyses close to the statistics(p< .01).
3) Cardiovascular endurance in exercise group level decreased from 444.31±37.66sec to 431.06±32.02sec and this analyses close to the statistics(p< .05).
4) Flexibility in exercise group level increased from 18.38±4.90cm to 20.16±5.24cm however, it did not show significant difference.
2. body composition
1) Body Weight in exercise group level decreased from 53.00±7.18kg to 52.03±7.25kg however, it did not show significant difference.
2) Body Fat in exercise group level decreased from 17.41±3.30kg to 16.19±3.74kg however, it did not show significant difference.
3) Percentage of body fat in exercise group level decreased from 32.46±2.61% to 31.25±3.88% however, it did not show significant difference.
4) Muscular mass in exercise group level increased from 38.45±2.48kg to 39.73±2.83kg and this analyses close to the statistics(p< .01).
5) Abdominal fat in exercise group from .77±.04% to .77±.03%.