This study has gathered the data including 'exercise', 'exercise program' and 'exercise therapy' in the title as preceding studies on theses related to physical education, medical science and nursing that have applied exercise programs by subjects in this country from 1995 to February, 2008. by selecting the studies satisfying above selection criteria as theses subjected to analysis finally select a total of 82 volumes to be selected as subjects for analysis in this study while the effective size of dependent variables have been calculated with SAS 9.1 version. The conclusions gained by summarizing the results of this study are as follows. first, While the average effective size of exercise program applied by age group toward lower variable of physical function had differences by age groups, it was shown that exercise programs had from little effect to great effect to all lower variables of physical while the fact that positive improvement is shown could be presented. second, For the average effect size which the types of exercise programs applied by age group (aerobic exercise, anaerobic exercise, composite exercise) have on physical function the adults had greatest effect in composite exercises while greater effect was shown in adults in the anaerobic exercise.