Abstract
Objective: The main objective of this research was to compare the effect of treadmill-based and track based walking training on cardiopulmonary fitness in University Students of Faisalabad.
Methodology: A Shuttle Run Test which is commonly used in sports settings and health centers to assess the cardiopulmonary fitness was used in this research study. The data was collected from the 98 participants of College of Physical Therapy and Department of sports sciences, GC University Faisalabad and it took around 9 months to complete this study.
Results: Mann-Whitney test and the p-value of .000 shows there is a significant difference between group comparisons of VO2 Max. Grouping Variable was set as those who used treadmill and those who used track-based walking to achieve better cardiopulmonary fitness. Data showed the difference between the VO2 Max of different weeks, and the p-value indicates that there is a significant difference between all these variables. There is also a difference of mean between these 3 pairs.
Conclusion: The study concluded that there is a significant difference found between VO2 Max of the participants throughout the course of 12 weeks. In addition to that it was also found that there is a significant difference between the VO2 Max of participants who used different cardiopulmonary fitness techniques like treadmill walking and track based walking. For those participants who were using track-based walking showed higher values of the VO2 Max than treadmill walkers. Moreover, between groups analysis also shows the difference between VO2 Max of the participants. And there was a significant correlation present between all the groups.