Authors :

M. Kiruba* and T. Radhakrishnan*,

Author Address :

School of Physical Education, Karpagam University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract :

The present study is designed to investigate the “effect of swimming on Vo2 max and aerobic capacity of school boys”. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, 30 school boys were randomly selected from Good Shepherd International School, Palada, Ooty. They were divided into two groups. The group I was considered as experimental group and group II was considered as control group. The investigator did not make any attempt to equate the group. The experimental group was given swimming training for six days per week whereas the control group was not given any training.  The experimental group was given training for the period of 8 weeks. The chosen criterion variables were Vo2 max and aerobic capacity. All the dependent variables were assessed before and after the training period of 8 weeks. The collected data on Vo2 max and aerobic capacity due to effect of swimming training was analyzed by computing mean and standard deviation. In order to find out the significant improvement if any, ‘t’ test was applied at 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the level of significance. The study revealed that the Vo2 max and aerobic capacity were significantly improved due to the influence of swimming training of school boys.

Keywords :

Vo2 max, aerobic capacity, swimming and training