The Effect of Walking Versus the RunningTraining on Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)in High School Girls in Ahwaz City

Premenstrual syndrome exists when women complain of regularly recurring psychological symptoms as irritability, anxiety, tension, aggression or somatic symptoms as bloating, weight gain, nostalgia, or both which occur specifically during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Symptoms can be severe enough to disrupt everyday life. The etiology of the PMS has not been confirmed yet. However, to relieve the Symptoms, a variety of treatment methods focusing on safe exercise are recommended. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of running and walking exercises for weeks on premenstrual in high school non-athlete girl students in Ahwaz city. The subjects were grouped randomly to three consisting of "running group" (n=) "walking group" (n=) and "control group" (n=). Having finished the reexamining stage, filling the premenstrual syndrome questionnaire and gaining the primary results, the running group did aerobic running for weeks and sessions each week, each session lasting min. The maximum heart rate was percent. The walking group for weeks walked min each day for sessions in each week at normal, fast and slow paces. The control group did not do exercises. Having finished the second stage, the examinees filled the premenstrual syndrome questionnaire after weeks for the second time and after weeks for the third time. To analyze the data used for ANOVA and Tukey test at the level of. The results showed, there was a great decrease in the physical and mental symptoms of PMS of the walking group and only in the physical symptoms they were the same for the running group. Comparing the results of the running group with those of the walking group and control group there was a great decrease in the physical symptoms of PMS. It was walking group for which there was a great decrease in symptoms when compared with the running group. Thus, we can say that the decrease in the physical symptoms of PMS for the running group was greater than that for other groups.