Twenty female adults, with average age of 39 years, voluntarily served as subjects in this study. They were required to perform aerobic dancing 3 times a week, each time for 45 minutes, during the 10-week training period. The exercise intensity examined afterwards was around 85%-90% of the maximal heart rate. Within the limits of this study, the authors found that body weight, percentage of body fat, vital capacity, and blood pressure did not significantly changed (p>.05). The changes of the body girth happened only on lower limb (p<.01 and p<.05), but not on the upper body and arm (p>.05). However, 12-min walk-run, resting heart rate, maximal heart rate, heart rate responses to the same workload (300 kpm), and Vo(subscript 2) max STPD showed very positive improvement (p<.01), which indicated that well-designed aerobic, dancing program could be beneficial to the cardiorespiratory fitness of female adults.
Twenty female adults, with average age of 39 years, voluntarily served as subjects in this study. They were required to perform aerobic dancing 3 times a week, each time for 45 minutes, during the 10-week training period. The exercise intensity examined afterwards was around 85%-90% of the maximal heart rate. Within the limits of this study, the authors found that body weight, percentage of body fat, vital capacity, and blood pressure did not significantly changed (p>.05). The changes of the body girth happened only on lower limb (p<.01 and p<.05), but not on the upper body and arm (p>.05). However, 12-min walk-run, resting heart rate, maximal heart rate, heart rate responses to the same workload (300 kpm), and Vo(subscript 2) max STPD showed very positive improvement (p<.01), which indicated that well-designed aerobic, dancing program could be beneficial to the cardiorespiratory fitness of female adults.