Abstract

Background: Cardio-respiratory and muscular endurance are thepriority for the field of physiotherapy, this profession demands more physical effortsto treatpatients. So good cardiorespiratory endurance of physiotherapy students is must, in order toimprove cardiorespiratory endurance, there must be exercise training included in thecurriculum which is less time consuming and also have good results, and for the improvement of cardiorespiratory endurance there is two well known exercise protocol is there the Dynamic surya namaskara and High intensity interval training Hence this study was undertaken to compare both the protocol and find which one is good for physiotherapy student by measuring their cardiorespiratory endurance after the training and comparing them from the previous endurance value taken before the training. And the comparison is also made between both groups average value of endurance improvement. Purpose of the Study: Aim of this study is to compare 6 weeks exercise protocols effectiveness of two different cardiorespiratory endurance trainings namely the Dynamic surya namskara and High intensity interval training and state which training is good for physiotherapy student to have in their curriculum for improve their cardiorespiratory endurance and yet it should not impact their study time and be less time consuming. Method: A experimental study was conducted in M.B Gohil institute of medical science and researchcentre Navsari, Gujarat. The study has included 32 physiotherapy students, divided into two groups usingconvenient sampling who have normal BMI and no other cardiopulmonary diseases according to our inclusion and exclusion criteria, one groupundergone dynamic Surya namaskar training and other group undergone high intensity intervaltraining, the study was conducted over a period of 6 weeks. Outcome of the cardiorespiratory endurance wasmeasured by using Harvard step test both before and after the training with prior informed consent. Outcome Measure: Harvard Step Test. Statistical Analysis: Statistical analysis was done using Microsoft office excel 2010. Result: Study was done among the 32 students who completed the full training protocol whereas 16 students was undergone Dynamic Surya Namaskar training and other 16 students was undergone High intensity interval training. Cardiorespiratory endurance of students was measured by performing Harvard step test both previously and after the training protocol then comparison of previous values and post values were done to check the improvement inendurance, the endurance was increase in both the groups, 37.45% in Dynamic Surya Namaskar group and 58.31% improvement in High intensity interval training group so both the trainings are very effective to improve cardiorespiratory endurance. Comparison was done Among the two training Dynamic Surya Namaskar and High intensity interval training but there was no significant difference observed thus both the training are somewhat equally effective to improve cardiorespiratory endurance. Conclusion: The present study showed that both the trainings are very good to improve cardiorespiratory endurance here high intensity interval training has slightly better improvement result then dynamic Surya namaskar training, but it is not significant enough to state that High intensity interval training is far better than dynamic Surya namaskar training. Considering the limitation of High intensity interval training, dynamic Surya namaskar training is a very good alternative with similar results on cardiorespiratory endurance according to our research.

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