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A child who experiences problems of excessive nutritional value when he is an adult will cause dangerous diseases such as cardiovascular disorders, and diabetes. Being overweight can also affect a childs intelligence. In children with overweight status, intelligence can experience a decrease due to a decrease in creativity and limitation when doing activities due to body conditions that are not free to move so that makes children lazy to do something. Rhythmic exercise (Senam Irama) increases the ability of muscles to produce energy aerobically and undergoes a metabolic process whose source of energy comes from burning fat. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of rhythmic exercise training on decreasing body mass index of RA Muslimat Tarbiyatunnasi-in Paculgowang students in Jombang. The research design used was the One Group Pre-test Post Test Design with a sample of 22 people, then BMI was measured using BMI / U and the nutritional status was obtained using the Z-score formula. This research was tested with Wilcoxon test and obtained a significance value smaller than 0.05 (0.00 <0.05) this means that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. Conclusion: There is an effect of rhythmic exercises on the decrease in body mass index. Keywords: Body Mass Index, Rhythmic Exercise, RA Muslimat Tarbiyatunnasyi-in.