Comparative study on performance related physical fitness among inter school level volley ball and hand ball players

Abstract

Physical fitness is generally performance related sports and games various skills of abilities than an individual possesses in order to perform specific types of physical activity efficiently and effectively. Fitness includes the mental, emotional, social as well as the physical aspects and all these components of total fitness play a significant role for a full and happy life fitness achieving proficiency in the various motor skills some on who is not natural athlete still is extremely fit it. Includes five basic components they are cardio respiratory endurance muscular strength flexibility and body composition participating in sports activities improve these fitness components often requires certain motor skills like agility, balance, co-ordination explosive power, speed and reaction time. The purpose of this study was to compare the selected performance related physical fitness components on volleyball and handball at inter school zonal level players. To achieve the players purpose the investigator selected 30 inter school zonal level volleyball players and 30 inter school zonal level handball players. The performance related physical fitness variables were selected as criterion variables. All the subjects of both the groups were tested on the selected dependent variables by using standard tests. The independent “t” ratio was used to analyze the significant difference, if any between groups. The 0.05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the “t” ratio obtained, which was considered as appropriate.