The Effect of Aerobic Exercises on Physical Fitness & Body Composition among Female Physical Education Studentsin Palestine Technical University in Ramallah

Abstract

This study sought to identify the effect of aerobic exercises on Physical Fitness and Body Composition (BC) among Students majoring in physical education in Palestine Technical University in Ramallah. To achieve this, the researcher used the experimental method on a deliberate sample of (22) female students of physical preparation who were divided into two equal and equal groups: a first experimental group on which aerobic exercises were applied using weights, and a second experimental group on which aerobics exercises were applied without the use of weights, for a period of eight weeks at a rate of three Weekly training doses The duration of each dose is sixty minutes, and measurements were used: physical characteristics and body composition. The study included the measures of physical fitness, body composition. The result indicated that the first experimental group (aerobics using weights) indicated that there were statistically significant differences in favor of the post-measurement in each of: 9-minute running and walking test, vertical jump, hand grip, sit ups, and plank exercise, while the result of body fat mass was in favor of Tribal measurement. The results of the second experimental group (aerobics without weights) indicated that there were statistically significant differences in favor of the dimensional measurement in each of: 9-minute running and walking test, shuttle running, vertical jump, hand grip, sit ups, while the result of body fat mass and body mass, the body muscles were in favor of the tribal measurement. The results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in the study variables in the dimensional measurement between the results of the students who used weights and those who did not use them in aerobic exercises. The study recommended the necessity of using aerobic exercises in physical preparation courses for female students of physical education majors in universities