EFFECT OF FREESTYLE DANCE AS A VYAYAMA (EXERCISE) ON CENTRAL OBESITY? A CASE STUDY

Obesity is one of the causative factors for diseases like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, cancer etc. Hence prevention and cure of obesity is the need of an hour. Central (Abdominal) obesity is serious form of obesity. Dance is very popular and desirable exercise which can be done without spending a penny. Depending upon the form of the dance one can actually burn a large amount of calories doing it. Freestyle dance is one of the dance forms which people do in festivals of India and is done free of cost with joyfully. In the present study, subject was taken having signs of central obesity. Freestyle dance was advised to the subject for 30 minutes for 15 days regularly without diet restriction. Five bollywood songs with fast music were selected for free style dance. Due to Freestyle dance as an exercise weight of the subject decreased from 60 Kg to 55 Kg. Abdominal girth has been reduced from 95 cm to 85 cm at the level of umbilicus, from 90cm to 80 cm, at the level 6 cm above the umbilicus and from 92 cm to 82 cm at the level 6 cm below the umbilicus. Abdominal girth has been reduced at the level of superior iliac crest from 105 to 95cm. B.M.I. (Body Mass Index) Chart has been decreased from24.34 kg/m2 to 23.12 kg/m2. Body Fat Percentage has been decreased from24 to 23. Present study showed that freestyle dance as a Vyayama (exercise) can be included as important daily regimen, curative and preventive measure for central obesity.