The Impact of Water Aerobics Program on Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Abstract

To improve health and life quality, every individual needs to do physical activity on a daily basis. One of the ways is through cardiorespiratory exercises. A type of exercise that can improve cardiorespiratory fitness is water aerobics. This kind of aerobics can be done by people of all ages and also can be an alternative for adults who dislike sports on land. This research was aimed at finding out the impact of water aerobics. 20 university students were involved as samples of this research. The samples were divided into two groups; group 1 (water aerobics) and group 2 (aerobics dance). The design implemented in this research was The Randomized Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design, with accidental sampling/convenience sampling as the technique to take the sample. The result of the data analysis showed that both water aerobics and aerobic dance had impacts on the improvement of cardiorespiratory fitness. Another result found that aerobic dance was more effective in improving cardiorespiratory fitness compared to water aerobics.