The effects of social dance training on physical fitness of undergraduate students of Rajamangala University of Technology PhraNakhon

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to 1. Study the effects of ballroom and Latin American dance training on physical fitness 2. Compare the effects of ballroom dancing and Latin American dance training on physical fitness. The samples were 30 undergraduate students of Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, 15 male students and 15 female students. They were equally divided into 3 groups of 10 students. Each group consisted of 5 male and 5 female students. Group 1 was the control group; group 2 performed ballroom dancing and group 3 performed Latin group dance. The experiment took 8 weeks, 3 days a week, one hour each time. The physical fitness tests were tested before week 4 and week 8, and the obtained data were statistically analyzed in terms of means, standard deviation, one-way analysis of variance, analysis of one-way covariance with repeated measurements. The research results were as follows: 1. After the 8 weeks of the experiment, it was found that the dance practice of the ballroom dancing group and Latin American dance practice group made the average of 1 minute lifting, 1 minute ground pushing and 3 minutes step-up. It was significantly better than the control group at the .05 level. 2. As for the ballroom dancing practice within the ballroom dancing group, it was found that after the 8 weeks of the experiment the average of 1 minute floor push and 3 minutes step up and down. It was significantly better than before the experiment and 4 weeks after the experiment, at the .05 level 3. The results of Latin American dance training showed that after 8 weeks of experiment, the mean of 1 minute lifting and 3 minutes of step-up and down was significantly better than before the experiment and after 4 weeks of experiment, at the .05 level.