Appropriateness and effectiveness of adapted aerobic gymnastics programmes for students with partial medical exemptions

. The purpose of this research was to meet the needs of students with partial medical exemptions through adapted attractive and effective exercise programmes. The study was conducted on a sample consisting of 30 students with partial medical exemptions, who had the physician’s recommendation to perform adapted physical exercise, and participation was based on their own consent. Participants were randomly divided into two groups of 15 subjects each. Both groups were included in a special aerobic gymnastics programme applied during physical education classes at university level. The experiment group additionally benefited from an aerobic exercise programme for independent activity. Initial and final tests were performed to determine vital capacity, static balance and speed-coordination. The analysis of the results showed statistically significant improvements between the initial and final tests (at a 0.05 significance threshold) in both groups for two of the three parameters, namely vital capacity and static balance. The comparative analysis of the final results achieved by the two groups highlighted a statistically significant improvement in the performance of the experiment group compared to the control group for the same two parameters (vital capacity and static balance), while for speed-coordination, the differences were statistically insignificant. We can conclude that the special aerobic gymnastics programmes designed by us have proven their effectiveness in improving some motor and functional parameters.