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Menopause involves hormonal changes that cause physical symptoms which vary from woman to woman. The vasomotor symptoms include hot flushes and night sweats. The vaginal symptoms include uterine prolapsed and vaginal atrophy. During high intensity exercise, when the minute ventilation increase, the work of abdominal muscles is required to increase expiratory flow rate. The enhanced abdominal muscles activity during exercise helps expiration of air out of the lungs which result in decrease in the end-expiratory lung volume. Aim: The purpose of the study is to understand the effect of abdominal muscle strengthening exercises and thoracic mobility exercises and to determine general activity improvement in post-menopausal females. Methodology: Quasi experimental design, Simple random sampling, 30 post-menopausal women were divided into 3 groups, Group 1 performed thoracic mobility exercises and Group 2 performed abdominal muscle strengthening exercises and Group 3 performed both thoracic and abdominal muscle strengthening exercises. Result: Within the group pre and post intervention comparison was done by chi-square test. Normality test was done by Shapiro-Wilk test. The intervention was given twice a day for 2 weeks. Post exercise outcome measures were measured. The mean difference of PEFR for group A was 21 and for group B was 19 and for group C was 27. Our study concluded that group C who did both thoracic mobility and abdominal muscle exercises was more significant as comparison to group A who did only thoracic mobility exercise and group B who did only abdominal muscle strengthening exercises. Although group A and group B also showed significant result. Conclusion: Combined thoracic mobility and abdominal muscle strengthening exercises were more effective as comparison to single thoracic mobility and single abdominal muscle strengthening exercises.