Comparative studies on some physical characteristics and physiological variables among the girl football players of hilly region and plane region

Abstract

The physical characteristic and physiological variables plays an important role in the field of games and sports. The present study was conducted for finding the comparison between hilly region and plane region girls’ football players in respect of the physical characteristic and physiological variables. Fifty eight girl football players from Hilly regions and 71 girl football players from plane regions were selected for the study. ‘t’ test was applied to calculated the collected data at 0.05 of significant. From the data it has been found that the hilly region girls football players showed usually better in weight, height, upper arm length, upper leg length, thigh and calf circumference, shoulder diameter, foot breadth and lean body mass than the plane region girls football players. The systolic blood pressure and resting pulse rate were also significantly different in both the groups. It may be revealed from the analysis that physical characteristic and physiological variables were better in hilly region girls’ football players than plane region footballers. However, with less percentage of body fat and with higher lean body mass of hilly region girl footballers showed better result than plane region.