Effectiveness of Jump Rope Exercise to Improve Cardio-Vascular Endurance of Special Program in Sports (SPS) Students

Physical activity is really an important ingredient of a healthy lifestyle. Thus, schools must initiate programs, establish projects and activities (PPA’s) related to the improvement of the holistic development of the learners in schools.

This study sought to investigate the effectiveness of jump rope exercise to improve cardiovascular endurance of Special Program in Sports (SPS) students of Zambales National High School, Iba, Zambales. The study utilized a quasi-experimental one-group pretest and posttest design involving eight (8) SPS students for Tennis during the school year 2022-2023.

The summary of the investigations concluded that 8 or 100.00 percent of the participants belonged to Needs Improvement Zone (I) in the assessment of their cardiovascular endurance as measured of their Jump Rope exercise as reflected in the pre-assessment mean of 27.38; and also revealed that 5 or 62.50 percent belonged to Health Fitness Zone (F), while 3 or 37.50 percent were belonged to Needs Improvement Zone (I) in the assessment of their cardiovascular endurance as measured of their Jump Rope exercise as reflected in the post-assessment mean of 37.41; there is a significant difference in the students’ physical fitness performance in the experimental group before and after the treatment as reflected in the t-value of 0.0168 which is less than the 0.05 alpha level of significance. Likewise, the SPS students as experimental group in the study yielded a 10.04 gain score, implying its effectiveness; and the fitness plan for SPS students appears to be a comprehensive and well-structured approach to enhance their cardiovascular endurance using jump rope exercises and assessed using PACER test.

The researcher recommends that Physical Education teachers may include jump rope as fitness exercise before the start of the practical lessons as intervention to improve the cardiovascular endurance; mass rope jumping activity shall be presented during “Field Day” and/or opening and closing program of provincial and regional athletic meets as field exhibition; the use of Jump Rope exercise and PACER test may be replicate to the district and schools division levels; and parallel study may be conducted to validate the effectiveness of the jump rope exercise to improve cardiovascular endurance to non-SPS students.