EFFECT OF EIGHT WEEK AEROBIC TRAINING PROGRAM ON SELECTED HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF DEAF MALE STUDENTS

Abstract

The purpose of present study was to scrutinize the effect of eight - week aerobic training program on selected hematological parameters among deaf male students at higher secondary school level. For achieving the purpose of the study data was collected on twenty (N=20) deaf students between age group of 17- 25 years from Patiala School for deaf and Blind, Safdipur, Patiala, Punjab, India. The subjects were purposively assigned into two groups: Group-A: Experimental (N1=10) and Group-B: Control (N2=10). Two hematological variables namely leukocytes count and blood pH level were selected for the purpose of this study. Before and after exercise protocol, the hematological parameters were measured. All blood samples were taken by the lab technician and were examined in a fully computerized clinical laboratory. The experimental group was subjected to a aerobic training program, consisting of five days per week evening session for the period of eight - weeks. To compare the effect of eight - week aerobic training program on selected hematological parameters among deaf male students mean, standard deviation and t-test were employed with the help of statistical package of SPSS. To test the hypothesis the significance level was set at 0.05 percent. After statistical treatment, result showed that there were significant effect of eight week aerobic training programme on haematological variable leukocyte count of experimental group and insignificant effect was found in control group. On the other hand no significant effect was found on blood pH level of experimental group and control group.