EFFECT OF AQUA EXERCISE TOWARDS LEG MUSCLE’S STRENGTH OF FUTSAL ATHLETE

Abstract

This research was aimed to study leg muscle’s strength before and after experimentation of futsal athlete in group with normal futsal program and in group training with aqua exercise and normal futsal program, and to compare leg muscle’s strength of futsal athlete between group with only normal futsal program and group with aqua exercise and normal futsal program. This research is experimental which used randomized control group pretest-posttest design, Leg Dynamometer Test which is standard measurement of Sports Authority of Thailand for testing leg muscle’s strength of samples which are 40 Surat Thani Rajabhat University futsal athletes by training as a group. The control group was trained with normal futsal program of futsal athlete and experimental group was trained with aqua exercise program and normal futsal program, each group consists of 20 samples. After analyzing statistic information by comparing Mean ( ) and Standard Deviation (SD), testing significance of differences between pre and posttest with t-test (t) of leg muscle’s strength of group with only normal futsal program, before and after the training and group with aqua exercise and normal futsal program, before and after the training. Including, to compare Mean ( ), Standard Deviation (SD) t-test (t) of leg muscle’s strength after training between samples training with normal futsal program and samples training with aqua exercise and normal futsal program. The findings were:

1. Group training with normal futsal program showed leg muscle’s strength after training higher than before training with significance .05


2. Group training with aqua exercise and normal futsal program showed leg muscle’s strength after training higher than before training with significance .05


3. After training with aqua exercise and normal futsal program showed leg muscle’s strength higher than group training with only normal futsal program with significance .05