摘要：The purpose of this study is that of comparing the effects of aquatic training to the effects of land training, in order to improve body composition by decreasing the fat tissue. 24 male students from the UPIT Physical Education and Sport Departament, aged in between 18 and 20 years have been voluntarily selected and divided into two experimental groups (aquatic n=12 experimental group and land n=12 control group). The subjects do not practice any performance sport except the loisir sport or the sport exercises from during the faculty hours. The same trainings and testing facilities and methods have been used for each evaluation and each lesson. Each lesson of muscular training lasted for 65-70 minutes, 3 days per week. In order to establish body composition, we have appealed to a Bosch PPW2200 scale, determining the fat tissue in accordance with the BIA (bioelectrical impedance analysis) principle. A significant difference of 2.72 has been registered (pre=18.2 and post=15.47) between the two groups with regards to the fat tissue established after the water training programs had ended. The muscular training in water is an efficient means of improving body composition, by a decrease of the fat tissue.
