Effects of 6-Week Resistance Band Training on Muscular Endurance and Flexibility Among College Students

Oh, Samuel Joel Wei Chin (2018) Effects of 6-Week Resistance Band Training on Muscular Endurance and Flexibility Among College Students. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The purpose for this study was to examine the effects of 6 weeks resistance band training on muscular endurance and flexibility among college students. A total of 24 subjects participated in this study age between 19 to 24 years old. The subject was divided into two groups, Experimental Group N=12 and Control Group N=12. The experimental group consisted of 3 days training per week for 6 weeks resistance band training programme. The control group did not participated in the 6 weeks resistance band training programme. The results showed that experimental group has improvement of 41.71% in 1minute push up while control group had a decreased of 2.30%. For 1minute curl up, experimental group had an improvement of 37.92% while control group had as improvement of 18.37% only. As for 1minute squat, experimental group had an improvement of 31.81% while control group only improve 2.40%. Lastly, there were only 2.77% of improvement for sit and reach test for experimental group while for control group, there were a decrease in their result of 5.87%. In conclusion, there were no significant difference in the pre-test mean of push up, curl-up test, squat test and sit and reach test score between experimental group and control group and also in the mean of push up test, curl-up test, squat test and sit and reach test score between pre-test and post-test for control group but there were significant difference in the post-test mean of push up test, curl-up test, squat test and sit and reach test score between experimental group and control group and also in the mean of push up test, curl-up test, squat test and sit and reach test score between pre-test and post-test for experimental group.