A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON EFFECTS OF SELECTED AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC WORKOUTS ON PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH RELATED PHYSICAL FITNESS VARIABLES AMONG UNDER 17 HANDBALL PROJECT ATHLETES OF HARAR CITY, EASTERN ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Aerobic and anaerobic exercises are important components for improving health related physical fitness variables. The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of selected aerobic and anaerobic workouts on performance improvement of health related physical fitness variables among Under 17 Athletes of Harar City, Eastern Ethiopia. To achieve this purpose of the study 32 (16 male,16 female) under 17 handball athletes were Harar city Simple randomly selected from Hakim woreda handball project as a subject and their age were >= 15 and under 17 years. They were assigned into two groups, aerobic group(8 male ,8 female) and anaerobic group(8 male,8 female). Each group consisted of 16 subjects. All groups participated in supervised aerobic and anaerobic workouts 3 days/week for 12 weeks. The parameters selected for the study were muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility ,Cardiorespiratory and body composition. Pre, during and post test were conducted for all 32 subjects on all health related physical fitness variables and the score were recorded. Data were analyzed using among each group through the use of independent T-tests and one-way analysis of variance /ANOVA/. The result obtained in this study indicate that there was significant improvement in health related physical fitness variables due to the effects of selected aerobic and anaerobic training (p≤0.05). This study also proved that, aerobic exercise was significantly better than anaerobic in improving muscular endurance, Cardiorespiratory endurance and flexibility and anaerobic exercise was significantly better than aerobic exercise in improving muscular strength. While both exercises had almost the same effect on body composition of the participants and the improvement on health related physical fitness variables(muscular strength, muscular endurance and Cardiorespiratory endurance) on male players was significantly better than their females. Whereas better improvement was observed on female on health related physical fitness variable( flexibility) than male players.