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Background and Aim: The cultural, social, and economic situation in our society cause to have little chances to experience running event for blind children. Since running is categorized as a fundamental activity to improve cardiorespiratory fitness, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of 6 weeks of selected running training on 540 meter record in blind children. Materilas and Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental study based a «non-equivalent control group» design. Study samples were blind children from an elementary visually impaired children school in Isfahan province. Experimental group were included 8 volunteers and control group included 10 volunteers. Exercise program was consisted of 3× 45-minute sessions per week program and lasted for 6 weeks. The 540 meters running test was used For evaluating cardiorespiratory fitness. Compliance rate of experimental group to the running program was calculated by the attendance form at the training session. The data were analyzed by repeated measure ANOVA and Statistic signification was set as (p≤0.05). Results: The results showed significant interaction (F (1, 16) =3.05, p=0.03), within (F (1, 16) =19.72, p=0.001), and between (F (1, 16) =5.75, p=0.05) in favor of experimental group. At the end of training sessions compliance rate experimental group to exercise program was %94. Conclusions: Selected running training in this research can be effective to improve the record of 540 m running blind children.
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