Comparison Of Health Related Fitness Variables Between Sedentary Girls And Female Kathak Dancers

Dance is an expression of feelings through body movements and is a part of culture of human society. Dance may be of various types like military, religious, festive and so on. Dance may also be classified as folk, classical etc. In India, dance is a cultural heritage continuing through ages. Dance is a wonderful fitness work out which human body rejuvenates and refurbishes with vigor, fitness and endurance. Dance not only promotes physical fitness; it has a wide range of positive impact on behavioral set up too. The author being a physical educationist by profession and passionate for dance made up her mind to conduct a research on dance and fitness and very specifically premeditated to compare the health related fitness of sedentary girls and girls involved in regular Kathak dance practice. Kathak is a classical dance form of India involving numerous body movements. It involves turns, twists, rotations and several other body movements converging to sound fitness. The Findings ascertained that the Kathak females are better in fitness variable Cardio respiratory endurance, muscular endurance and body composition than the sedentary girls.