CARDIORESPIRATORY ADAPTATIONS TO TWELVE WEEK PROGRAMME OF JOGGING AMONG MALE STUDENTS OF JIGAWA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, GUMEL

📄 Project Abstract

Tasks of daily life no longer provide sufficient regular vigorous exercise to develop and maintain adequate levels of physical fitness. For that reason, in recent years, Jogging has become popular as away of keeping physically fit. In this study, a 12 week jogging programme of one hour, three alternate days a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) was conducted involving forty two male students of Jigawa State College of Education Gumel. V02max, resting heart rate and resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure were taken at pretraining, after 4 weeks of training, after 8 weeks of training and post training (after 12 weeks of training) respectively. The Cooper 12 minute run test for used to infer V02max, the resting heart rate and resting blood pressure were determined through the use of a sinex digital; sphygmomanometer. These values were analyzed using the SPSS package. The statistics used was the one-way repeated measure ANOVA, at probability level of P <.0005. The study found sign...