The purpose of the study was to analyze the impact of step aerobic and dance aerobic training on percent body fat among obese adolescent boys. Forty five (45) obese adolescent boys were selected from Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Yaripora of (UT) Jammu & Kashmir. They were assigned into three groups. each group consists of fifteen subjects. The three groups namely Group I acted as Experimental Group (step aerobic), Group II acted as Experimental Group dance aerobic and Group III acted as control group. The duration of the exercise period was 12 weeks. At the end of 12-weeks of the training, post-tests were taken. To find out the significant differences between the groups, an analysis of covariance ANCOVA was applied. When the f-ratio of the adjusted post-test mean was found to be significant, Scheffe’s post hoc test was applied to find out paired mean differences. The level of confidence was fixed, at 0.05 level of significance. Percent body fat was assessed by skin fold caliper test. The result suggested that dance aerobic was more effective than step aerobic and significantly reduces percent body fat among adolescent obese boys.

Keywords: step aerobic, dance aerobic, percent body fat, obese, adolescent.