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This paper embarks from the modern technological advancements that have negative impacts on society i.e. the lack of physical activity which resulting in high obesity rates and poor health. Studies have shown that Zumba dance and high impact aerobics as a way to reduce weight and body fat. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of Zumba dance exercise and high impact aerobics to reduce weight and body fat. In addition, this study also aims to evaluate differences in the effect of both forms of exercise on the percentage of body weight and fat. The population of this study is IBAF SMEs and SME woman gymnastics at UPI Bandung. While the sample is 10 women from each group. The research method used is experimentation with pre-test and post-test group design. Data were analyzed by paired t-test using SPSS. The results indicate differences in the Zumba dance workout in weight loss is significant at P < 0.05, (P = 0.010) as well as fat content (P = 0.007). Differences of high impact aerobic exercise on weight loss is also significant at P < 0.05, (0.00) and fat content (0.00). While, the differences of both groups in reducing body weight are not significant (0.334) and fat content (0,146) at P < 0,05. This study concludes a significant difference from Zumba dance training and high impact aerobics in weight loss and there are no significant differences of both groups in improving results. In other words, both methods equally produced significant reductions. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Faculty of Sport and Health Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
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