EFFECT OF CIRCUIT TRAINING AND CONTINUOUS TRAINING OF PHYSICAL FITNESS FOR THE POLICE LANCE CORPORAL STUDENTS AT POLICE TRAINING CENTER OF PROVINCIAL POLICE REGION 1

Abstract

The purpose of this research article is to compare the physical fitness before and after the trainings of the police lance corporal students at the Training Center of Provincial Police Region 1. The samples were selected with the purposive sampling method using a physical fitness test for police cadets. They were divided into two groups with the serrated paring method. The experimental group was trained with the station training program for 30 students, and the controlled group was trained with the normal training program for 30 students. The total period of the trainings was eight weeks. Each week had five training days. Each day had 60 minutes of the trainings. The instruments were the physical fitness evaluation form for police non-commissioned officer students that was amended in 2018 by Police Education Bureau, Royal Thai Police. It had eight aspects: 1) speed, 2) strength, 3) muscular power, 4) endurance, 5) agility, 6) flexibility, 7) cardiovascular system and 8) circulatory system. The statistics for analyzing the data were mean, standard deviation, one-way ANOVA with repeated measures, Bonferroni pairwise comparison and t-test. The findings were as follows. Firstly, the experimental group and the controlled group had the physical fitness after the 8^th week of the trainings that were significantly and statistically better than that before the trainings at the significance level of .05. Secondly, the experimental group had the physical fitness after the 8^th week of the trainings that were not significantly and statistically different at the significance level of .05., the controlled group had the physical fitness after the 8^th week of the trainings that were not significantly and statistically different at the significance level of .05. It could be summarized that the station training program and the normal training program could improve the physical fitness of the police non-commissioned officer students.