Poster Presentation

Paper ID : 1338-SSRC

¹physical education teacher

²دبیر تربیت بدنی

Obesity is a condition characterized by excessive accumulation of fat in body. Obesity with serious and dangerous physical diseases such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, inflammation of the gall bladder, gout, diabetes, osteoarthritis, irregular menstruation, infertility and sterility in women, irregular ovulation, types of cancer, migraine, resistance to Insulin and obstructive sleep apnea respiratory diseases are related. Obese people may show more damage in cognitive functions such as reaction time, vigilance and attention and immediate recall of words, delayed recall, selective attention, processing speed and executive functions of implicit memory, semantic memory and spatial ability. present study intends to investigate effect of one session jumping rope activity on cognitive function of obese and overweight students (BMI>24.9). statistical population of this research are male students of first secondary schools in Qochan, in form of available sample, selected one school and 15 people were investigated. training protocol consisted of 5-minute warm-up, 20 sets of 1-minute jumping rope with sixty jumps per minute, and 30 seconds rest between each set. Stroop task test was performed before and after protocol. Shapiro-Wilk test was used to check normality of data distribution. paried t-test was used to compare intra-group changes (pre-post test). According to obtained results, one session of jumping rope activity has significantly improved attention and speed of information processing from pre-test to post-test in both congruent (p=0.021) and incongruent (p=0.014) modes. As a result, an aerobic training session of jumping rope had a significant effect on attention and information processing speed of obese and overweight students.

Attention; Information processing speed; Cognitive function; Obesity; jumping rope