Comparative study of selected motor abilities and body mass index of basketball and handball players

Abstract

Purpose of the study was to evaluate and compare the selected motor fitness components and BMI in Male Basketball and hand ball Players of belonging Amravati district (M.S). Players involved in Physical fitness were selected to Test as subjects for this study. The researcher divided the entire 40 sample into two groups. Basketball (N=20), Hand ball (N=20) groups, which were compared with each other. All the subjects were tested on Explosive Power, flexibility, Agility. In order to find out the significance of differences between male Basketball and handball players independent T-test were computed in the form of t-ratio. The results of the study revealed differences between analysis of data where Hand ball Players were having better mean values in Explosive Power, flexibility than Basketball players whereas in agility and BMI results shows insignificant difference. With the result it could be concluded that at inter-university level Hand ball Players of Amravati district are better in performance than the Basketball male players.