THE EFFECTIVENESS OF 12 WEEKS TRAINING ON BODY FAT PERCENTAGE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

Overweight is one of the today's most important public health problems.The purpose of the present study was an attempt to find out the best method of handling overweight. Out of 96 selected participants from fluvio coastal zone of west Bengal, India on the basis of BMI, 80 overweight girls (average age:20) were consider for the study.The subjects were divided into four groups (20 for each group) randomly. Separately designed 12 weeks training programme for the groups was applied on the subjects at morning between 8.00 am to 9.15am for three alternative days per week. After every four weeks,total load was increased.Pre and post test on the groups were conducted to measure the training effect on Body Fat Percentage of the subjects. The collected data were statistically analyzed by using the analysis of Covariance (p<0.05) to determine differences and the LSD test was applied as a post hoc test to find out the paired mean differences. From the obtaining result, it was concluded that weight training, aerobics and graded circuit training are found to be effective for reducing Body Fat Percentage of overweight college girls.