Comparison of the Static Balance, Strength and Flexibility Characteristics of the University Students Who Taken Artistic Gymnastic Lesson

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of a training program specific to Artistic Gymnastics branch on the performanceof university students. 72 university student studying in the School of Physical Education and Sports were participated in thestudy voluntarily as a control and experiment group. The experimental group was given artistic gymnastics training programfor 12 weeks, 2 days a week and 60 minutes. For the data obtained, the homogeneity of the normality variance was tested andthen the mixed ANOVA analysis was used to determine the difference in the pretest and posttest. When the flamingo balancevalues were examined, a significant difference was found between the groups (F(1, 71)=4.93, ƞ2 =.07, p