EFFECT OF ROPE SKIPPING ON VISCERAL FAT INDICES AMONG MALE STUDENTS OF DEMONSTRATION SECONDARY SCHOOL, FCE, ZARIA, KADUNA STATE

The purpose of this study was to assess the Effect of Rope Skipping on Centripetal Fat Patterning Indices Among Male Students of Demonstration Secondary School, FCE, Zaria, Kaduna State’’. 25 selected participants undergoing a secondary education at Demonstration Secondary School Federal College of Education Zaria, Kaduna State were used for the study. They were 12 through 15 years old that took part in the study. One group repeated measure research design method was adopted in this study. All the participants selected satisfied the inclusion criteria and were assigned to rope skipping for 8 weeks. However, data were taken at the baseline (0-week), 4th-week, and 8-week. The exercise session was conducted between the hours of 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday alternatively. The data collected were analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences and simple percentages was used to answer the demographic data of participants, descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions and repeated analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to test the hypotheses at the statistically significant level P