I: Efficacy of aquatic-based exercise training versus land-based exercise training in the lactic acid threshold of sedentary college students
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I have always wanted my thesis/research
topic to be relevant to society, which is why I chose this topic because it
tackles on the increasing risk of obesity in the Philippines. The topic is also
under exercise physiology, one of my most favorite subjects in sports science.
Obesity is an emerging health problem in the Philippines because of certain
detrimental factors: unhealthy eating caused by the constant increase of fast
food chain branches, lack of exercise most especially among young adult
Filipinos, stress from either work, school, or personal life namely are just
some of the factors that affect the increasing health problem in the
Philippines. Lack of exercise among young adult Filipinos is prevalent most
especially in the academe, where students and professors alike are constantly
on the go. Most of the college student’s spare time usually involve partying
and/or hanging out with friends as a form of stress reliever. Some never even
bother to exercise because of lack of motivation and the fact that they could
do other fun and exciting things aside from sweating and experiencing pain in
the body. With those things in mind, I thought about making exercise fun and
exciting for young adults so that they would really set a time for exercise and
maybe invite their friends in the future.
The beach and swimming are two
things that most people, in general, look forward to every vacation. These are
the two things that people brand as fun and exciting, which is why I thought of
incorporating one common factor that these two things have: water. Aquatic
exercise is an emerging topic in the field of research. New studies on
rehabilitative exercise showed that injured elite athletes have been open to
doing aquatic-based training as a part of their rehabilitative training program.
There are also sports science researchers that have delved the realm of aquatic
training as a form of treatment on the movement patterns of people with
disability. The water has certain properties that makes it an effective tool
for rehabilitation. One physical property of water is its hydrostatic pressure,
where it could be used to reduce effusion meaning it enables the athlete to
exercise an injured part of the body without an increase in the escape of a
fluid from anatomical vessels by rupture. The water also exhibits drag and
resistance properties when people wade or move through it, which may be an
effective tool for exercising. Not only does the water provide fun and exciting
activities for people, in general, but it also exhibits certain properties that
may be an effective tool for tackling on the increasing health problem in the
Philippines.
I’m hoping that with this
research topic, I would be able to come up with different fun, exciting, and
effective aquatic workouts that would make college students want to exercise
more frequently. Since an increase in lactic acid threshold is my objective, I
would be conducting short high intensity interval exercises.
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