The effect of eight weeks of pool exercises on some physical fitness parameters in sedentary women

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of 8-week pool exercises on certain physical fitness parameters in sedentary women. Our study was carried out with the voluntary participation of 30 sedentary women aged between 33-44 years living in Niğde province. Our participants were randomly selected on a voluntary basis from the individuals who applied to the basic swimming training course provided by Niğde Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports. The participants received a training programme consisting of basic swimming training and 10 different in-pool exercises for one and a half hours a day, 3 days a week for 8 weeks in total. In determining the physical fitness components of the participants, measurements were taken with 11 different measuring instruments as pre and post-test and the collected data were compared in terms of variables with SPSS 27.0 programme. Dependent groups T-test was used to compare body weight, flexibility, right and left hand, back and leg strength, medicine ball throwing, triceps and suprailiac skinfold thickness, fat ratio and respiration levels, and Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare vertical jump, femur skinfold thickness, inspiration and expiration levels. As a result of statistical tests, a significant increase was found in the flexibility, leg and back strength, triceps, suprailiac and femur skinfold thickness, vertical jump, inspiration and expiration values of the participants with p<0.001 and in the respiratoryFEV-FVC% component with p<0.05, while a significant increase could not be detected in body weight, right and left paw strength, medicine ball throwing, fat ratio and respiratoryPEF components although there was a numerical difference, since the required sample sizes could not be met.