EFFECT OF WALKING TECHNIQUE ON HEALTH RELATED FITNESS FUNCTIONAL OF WOMEN

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the Effect of Walking technique on health related fitness functional of women. To investigate the study, thirty women were randomly selected from spouse women’s at Coimbatore district and their age ranged between 30 and 35 years. The subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups (n=15).  All the subjects were divided in to two groups with 15 subjects in each as experimental and control group. Group-I underwent walking technique for a period of 12 weeks and group-II acted as control who did not participate in any special training other than the regular routine. The health related fitness variables such as Muscular strength and Flexibility were selected as dependent variables. Pre and post-test random group design was used for this study. The dependent‘t’ test was applied to determine the difference between the means of two groups. To find out whether there was any significant difference between the experimental and control groups. To test the level of significant of difference between the means 0.05level of confidence was fixed. The result of the study shows that, there was a significant improvement takes place on Muscular strength and Flexibility of of women due to the Effect of Waling technique. And also concluded that, there was a significant difference exists between experimental and control groups in Muscular strength and Flexibility. The control group did not improve the selected criterion variables.