Jumping Rope Intervention on Health-Related Physical Fitness in Students with Intellectual Impairment

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to examine the effect of jumping rope training on the health-related physical fitness in students with intellectual impairment. Nine students aged between 13-15 and who at Chung-Shan Junior High School in Taichung City were selected as the study sample. Using the random sampling method, students were divided into the experimental group (N=6) and the control group (N=3). Tests of health-related physical fitness were conducted before and after the training. The paired t-test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were used in the statistical analyses for the test results