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Authors: CIULEA LAURA EDIT, SZABÓ-CSIFÓ BARNA.
DOI: 10.24193/subbeag.64(1).04
Published Online: 2019-03-30
Published Print: 2019-03-30
pp. 45-53
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Introduction. The significance of this paper resides in the conception and introduction of a program of aerobics-specific exercises into physical education classes in order to prepare the body for effort, improving students’ functional capacity. Aerobics is an attractive and efficient way of preparing the body for effort. Systematic practice of aerobics has complex long-term effects: muscle toning, the improvement of the activity of the cardiovascular and respiratory system. Due to the intensity of effort and to the fact that the entire body takes part in it, the benefits of practicing aerobics aim at improving functional capacity affecting body harmony by reducing fat and toning muscles. Methods. Students of the experimental group underwent various aerobic programs during warm up sessions while the control group used traditional warm up methods. To determine functional capacity of students the Ruffier test was applied and vital capacity was measured. Results. After introducing aerobic programs into the warm up part of physical education lessons of the experimental group there was a noticeable improvement in exercise capacity. The difference between the arithmetic means of the two, initial and final, tests was of 4.11 for the experimental group, which resulted from the mean of the initial test result 4.35, and the mean of the final test result 0.23 Conclusion. Research results evidentiate the efficiency of various aerobic programs, designed and implemented in order to improve functional capacity of students of the experimental group.
Keywords: aerobics, functional capacity, students, improvement.
