A Comparison Between the Effect of Playing Games and Doing Aerobics on Some Body Composition Indices of the Obese Female Students

Subject Areas : Sports Science and Healthy

Mehdi Bostani ¹ , Zeinab Alipour ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Master's degree, Department of Physical Education, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2022-04-10 Accepted : 2022-06-17 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: Sport, Aerobics, Obesity, Playing, body composition, Females,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study is the comparative review of the effect of two exercising plans on some body composition indices of the obese female girls in Ahwaz. To this aim, 45 obese students in district 1 of the education administration of Ahwaz were purposefully chosen and then they were randomly assigned to 3 groups of 15 girls. In order to control the participants’ dietary plan, the nutrition remembrance questionnaire was used. Body composition indices including body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and body fat percentage in both pre-test and post-test stages were measured and registered. For inside group comparison, dependent t-test was used and for the comparison of the 3 groups, the variance analysis (ANOVA) as well as Tuckey’s Post Hoc in the significant level of 0.05 were used. The results showed that doing 8 weeks of aerobics and playing games both significantly reduced the BMI and body fat percentage but only playing games could significantly reduce the WHR (P<0.05). According to the results of the present research, it is recommended that in order to control children obesity, in addition to organized exercises, sport activities in the form of playing be used as well.

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