This study was to investigate the effects of swimming exercise on middle-aged women's physical fitness and body composition with experimental survey of 14 women, and to compare the three; before swimming, the fourth week after swimming, the eighth wee...
This study was to investigate the effects of swimming exercise on middle-aged women's physical fitness and body composition with experimental survey of 14 women, and to compare the three; before swimming, the fourth week after swimming, the eighth week after swimming.
1. Physical fitness
1) There were no statistical meaningful differences(p=ns) that their muscular strength increased; 68.2 before swimming, 69.6 the fourth week after swimming, 71.0 the eighth week after swimming.
2) There were statistical meaningful differences(p<.022) that their muscular endurance increased; 6.50 before swimming, 7.64 the fourth week after swimming, 8.92 the eighth week after swimming, statistical meaningful differences 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks difference verification period.
3) There were statistical meaningful differences(p<.006) that their flexibility increased; 11.7 before swimming, 12.4 the fourth week after swimming, 13.5 the eighth week after swimming, statistical meaningful differences 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks difference verification period.
4) There were statistical meaningful differences(p<.000) that their cardiovascular endurance increased; 55.9 before swimming, 59.2 the fourth week after swimming, 64.0 the eighth week after swimming, statistical meaningful differences 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks, 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks difference verification period.
2. Body composition
1) There were statistical meaningful differences(p<.002) that their body weights lost; 63.3 before swimming, 61.7 the fourth week after swimming, 59.5 the eighth week after swimming, statistical meaningful differences 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks difference verification period.
2) There were statistical meaningful differences(p<.000) that their % fat decreased; 34.5 before swimming, 32.7 the fourth week after swimming, 30.1 the eighth week after swimming, statistical meaningful differences 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks, 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks difference verification period.
3) There were statistical meaningful differences(p<.000) that their fat weight decreased; 21.7 before swimming, 20.1 the fourth week after swimming, 17.9 the eighth week after swimming, statistical meaningful differences 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks, 0 weeks vs. 8 weeks difference verification period.
4) There were no statistical meaningful differences(p=ns) that their lean body weight increased a little; 41.6 before swimming, 41.5 the fourth week after swimming, 41.6 the eighth week after swimming.
Synthetically swimming exercise showed that there were meaningful increases in the elements of middle-aged women's Physical fitness; muscular endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance. And they also showed that there were meaningful decreases in the elements of middle-aged women's body composition; body weight, % fat, fat weight. But no meaningful differences without regard to a little increase of Physical fitness of muscular strength and body composition of lean body weight.