Effect of pre-cooling and warm-up on aerobic endurance performance

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of pre-cooling and a warm-up programme on endurance performance. Twelve male students from Dr.Sivanthi Aditanar College of Physical Education, Thiruchendur were participantrandomly sampled. The age of the participant was ranged from 21 to 25 years. The selected variables of heart rate and endurance performance were assessed by using treadmill test. For the first ten minutes treadmill speed was fixed at 9.5km. Then every five minutes the speed will be increased to 1km/h. At the same time heart rate was noted. In addition to that the participant were unable to run on a particular speed, time and distance were noted. The obtained data were statistically analysed with 2x5 single factor repeated measure ANOVA was used to find out the significant difference, Newman-keuls test was used as a post-hoc test. An alpha level of 0.05 was used for all tests. The results indicate that a pre-cooling programme increased exercise endurance performance.