LOSE WEIGHT AND PREVENT OBESITY BY AEROBIC GYMNASTICS

LOSE WEIGHT AND PREVENT OBESITY BY AEROBIC GYMNASTICS

Aerobic gymnastics is a sport that is very popular in today's society, especially for those who want to lose or control body weight. But sports alone is not enough to lose weight and it must be coupled with good eating pattern settings. The problem is many of us are very difficult to control our diet and it needs to be analyzed further. This research aims to carry out an analysis of the influence of aerobic gymnastics to weight loss without diet interventions given.  The subject was 15 women, aged 20-25 years old, have a normal body weight. The intervention provided in the form of gymnastic aerobics three times a week, performed for 45-minutes practice session, and each was given for 1 month. This research was a quasi experimental research with one group pretest-posttest design. Weight measurement was done before and after aerobic gymnastics given. The results indicated that the aerobic gymnastics for 1 month losing 0.73% of body  weight, but the decline was not statistically meaningful. This showed that aerobic gymnastics for 1 month for women in the age 20-25 years has started to give response, but the duration has not been enough to lose significantly of body weight. It was concluded that in order to lose or control body weight, besides  takes aerobic gymnastics with the duration of up to 1 month, it has to accompany with  diet arrangement. This would give effect to  prevent  overweight and obesity

Yusni, .; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Syiah Kuala University Banda Aceh

Proceedings of The Annual International Conference, Syiah Kuala University - Life Sciences & Engineering Chapter; Vol 4, No 2 (2014): Life Sciences; 144-148

2089-208X

Syiah Kuala University

2014-12-30

Copyright (c) 2015 Proceedings of The Annual International Conference, Syiah Kuala University - Life Sciences & Engineering Chapter

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