The Study of Effect Size of Muay Thai Aerobic Exercise Program of Physical Fitness of Undergraduate Student, Chaiyaphum Rajabhat University

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the effects of the Muay Thai aerobic exercise program on the physical fitness of undergraduate students of Chaiyaphum Rajabhat University. The type of research was a quasi-experimental design with one experiment group. Simple random sampling was used to select the sample of 45 undergraduate students enrolling in sports for health courses in the first semester in the academic year of 2019. A Paired-samples t-test was used to test the difference in physical fitness between before and after the experiment. Eta-squared was used to analyze the effect size . The results showed that nine aspects of physical fitness of students after the Muay Thai aerobic exercise program were higher than before at the significance level of 0.01. The result of effect size analysis by using eta-squared revealed that the effect size of Muay Thai aerobic exercise program on various physical fitness was between moderate and high. This research result shows that the Muay Thai aerobic exercise program can be used to develop the physical fitness of undergraduate students.