EFFECTS OF CIRCUIT TRAINING FOR BALANCE DEVERLOPMENT OF PRATHOMSUKSA 1 AT KASETSART UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The objective of this research was to study the effects of circuit training on the development of balance in grade 1 students at Kasetsart University Laboratory School. The sample used in this study were 39 students (19 boys and 20 girls) who were grade 1 at the demonstration school of Kasetsart University in the 2020 academic year. The instruments of this research were: 1) 8 balance training stations which were chosen by five experts for the face validity, consisting of a trampoline station, balance board station, switch left and right station, Bosu balance station, step up-down station, balance bridge station, jump over the fence station, and rope ladder station; and 2) The single leg balance test created by Michikawa and College (2009) whose test-retest reliability was very high. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, and dependent t-test. It was found that the mean of single leg balance of the students before the training was 26.09 seconds and the standard deviation was 14.35 seconds. After circuit training at Week 8, the mean of single leg balance of the students was 51.13 seconds and the standard deviation was 17.06 seconds. When the means of single leg balance of the students before and after 8 weeks of training were compared, the difference was found to be statistically significant.