ion and psychomotor skill enhancement (Arnheim and Prentice, 2000). The present study is designed to investigate the effects of anaerobic exercise treatment programs in improving depression in adolescents. This study will address gaps in previous literature and expand upon past research which indicates that aerobic exercise results in a decrease in depressive symptoms of depressed youth. The experiment will be 12 weeks in length, as this is the amount of time needed to see any effects of exercise. The experiment will consist on three exercising groups, one being a combination of aerobic and anaerobic exercise, one being just aerobic exercise, and the other one being just anaerobic exercise. The use of these three groups will be able to provide information on the benefits on one type of exercise over another, as well as provide information on whether or not a combination of the two types of exercise is more beneficial than one alone. A control group will not be used in this study, as it has already been shown in past literature that aerobic exercise has the ability to improve depressive symptoms. It is hypothesized that the group with the combination of aerobic and anaerobic exercise will produce a lower post test score on the BDI questionnaire, compared with the aerobic group and the anaerobic group.MethodParticipantsSubjects were volunteers selected from inpatients of a private psychiatric facility where adolescents are hospitalized. Participants have to have a diagnosis of mild to moderate depression. Severe depression was not looked at in this study. Thirty adolescents will participate in this study after obtaining parental consent and medical clearance from the doctors in the psychiatric facility. The ages of the participants will be in the range of 13 to 18 years of age. The participants will be divided in to three groups. Ten will be in the aerobic and anaerobic exercise group, 10 in the aerobic group, and 10 in the anaerobic gro...
