Effectiveness of active transportation on muscular endurance of school boys and girls of Chandigarh

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the muscular endurance among different mode of travelling groups (motorized, cyclist and walkers) of Chandigarh school boys and girls. The study was carried out of 3000 school boys (1500) and Girls (1500) of Chandigarh. The age of the subjects ranged between 13-17 years. A survey type study had been designed to compare the muscular endurance among different mode of travelling groups of Chandigarh school boys and girls. Initially simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of schools from the government and private schools of Chandigarh. To find out the significance differences among different mode of travelling groups, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied with the help of SPSS software. For testing hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05. Further Scheffe’s Post-hoc test was applied to see the direction and significances of differences where ‘F’- ratio was found significant. The findings of the study revealed that Cyclists group of school boys and girls were significantly superior to their counterparts.