EFFECT OF CORE STABILITY TRAINING ON BODY COMPOSITION AND CORE FUNCTION RELATED STRENGTH AND FLEXIBILITY PARAMETERS OF FEMALE STAFF.

The purpose of this study is to figure out the effect of an 8-week core stability training participation on body composition and core function-related strength and flexibility parameters of female university staff. The sample whose average age is 33,92±4,371 was determined by random sample method; Control group (CG, n=17) and Exercise Group (EG, n=19). EG participated in 3-day-a-week core stability trainings for 8 weeks. Handgrip strength (HGS), back strength (BS), and leg strength (LS); trunk muscle endurance (TME), trunk stability (TS), trunk explosive strength (TES); trunk flexion (TFX), trunk extension (TEX), trunk lateral flexion (TLF), height (H), body weight (BW), body mass index (BMI), basal metabolic rate (BMR), body fat percent (BFP), waist-hip ratio (WHR), total body fat mass (TBFM), total body water (TBW), visceral fat (VF) measurements were done. Parametric independent t-test and paired t-test was used for comparisons. Significance level p<.05 and confidence interval was 95%. Group comparison results showed no significant difference in body composition parameters for EG and KG (p>.05). But in-group comparisons for KG referred to significant differences in all parameters of body composition for the post-test (p<.05). The comparisons of core function-related strength parameters exposed significant differences in LS, BS, TE, TS and TES (p<.05). It is revealed in in-group comparisons that significant differences in all parameters for EG (p<.05), and in HGSright, HGSleft and in BS for CG (p <.05). Group comparisons of core function related-flexibility the post-tests put forward significant differences in all parameters (p<.05), whereas there were significant differences in in-group comparisons in TF, TE, TLFleft for EG (p <.05) and in all parameters (p<.05) for CG. It can be claimed that core stability training has a positive and direct effect on strength whereas it has conservative effect on body composition