Aerobic Dance Circuit Training as a Panacea for the Maintenance of Athletes’ Fitness during Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Aerobic dance circuit training is an efficient, challenging series of conditioning workout that develop strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination and aerobic endurance. It is a new developed fitness training that has shown to effectively develop strength and cardiovascular fitness exercise session. Aerobic dance exercise has been used in circuit manner which can be adopted by sport and fitness specialist for the maintenance of social/physical distancing during this pandemic. A typical ADCT workout fulfills the cardiorespiratory and body composition training principles (Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type of activity). Using ADCT as training programme improves cardiorespiratory variables such as systolic/diastolic blood pressure, Mean arterial blood pressure, also increases reserve heart rate, vital capacity, inspiratory reserved volume, peak expiratory flow rate and maximal oxygen consumption. It therefore recommended that future investigations could include the effects of ADCT on post pandemic.