Author(s): Shomi Anand, Dr. Preeti Jain, Dr. JJ Makwana, Dr. Deepak Kumar Dogra and Dr. Parveen Kumar Sharma

Abstract:
Obesity is the prime public health problem that has emerged as a challenge and needs to be tackled at the earliest as it is permeating every aspect of life. Obesity affects the fitness and hence health related variable like strength too gets affected. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of 12 week of supervised and planned exercise regime training on health related variable like muscle strength in obese individuals. In this study 120 obese subjects were recruited; experimental group [n = 60; 30 male + 30 female] and control group [n=60; 30male+30female]. Experimental group participants joined supervised and planned session for 60 min per day, 5 days per week for 12 weeks, whereas control group was not provided with functional gym training, but were doing exercise without planned regime. Post test score showed significant changes in the experimental group of both the gender moreover gender influence was also evident on application of ANOVA. It was concluded that meticulously planned exercise protocol when executed under supervision for 12 weeks demonstrated a better result than unplanned workout.

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