Assessment of percent body fat among different age group men and women physical education teachers

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyze the percent body fat among different age group men and women physical education teachers. To achieve the purpose of this study ninety school physical education teachers from kanyakumari district, Tamilnadu, India were selected, in which 45 subjects were men and remaining 45 subjects were women. The selected participants were the inhabitants of kanyakumari district, and they were in the age group of 31 to 60 years. The investigator administered standard tests and procedures to measure the selected variable percent body fat. Two-way analysis of variance was used to find out the influence of each factor independently and also their combined influence on the selected variable. The result of the study shows that significant difference exists between gender (men & women) irrespective of age group and also significant difference exists among age groups (31-40, 41-50 and 51-60) irrespective of gender on percent body fat.