Comprative study of agility, reaction time, strength and flexibility mearsures of handball and netball players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the agility, reaction time, strength and flexibility of Handball and Netball player to fulfill the objectives of the study, 150 Handball and 150 Netball players were selected from Punjab state. Who were participated in inter college tournament of Handball and Netball. The data were collected in inter college tournament the age of selected subjects arranged from 18-25 years. Test used for semo agility test, nelson foot reaction time test, vertical jump for strength test and flexibility (modified sit and reach test) were used to measure the selected physical fitness variables of players in order to analyze the data and significant different between handball and Netball players of Punjab. The mean, SD, MD, SE-IND and ‘t’ values were calculated to find out the significant of differences between male handball and Netball players. Significant level is found out by the application of ‘t’ test at 0.05 level. After comparing of the present data it is concluded that the reaction time of Netball players and Handball players contains slight difference and agility of Handball players is better than the Netball players. As the scores of agility is measured in seconds mean performance of explosives strength of Netball players have more than handball players. Which shows that explosives strength Netball players in better than the handball players and the flexibility of Netball players is better than the handball players. This study also helpful to guideline for players Students teachers and researchers.