Effectiveness of stretching exercise on physical fitness performance

Abstract

The study will be constituted on 30 Chaudhary Devi Lal University Students. Out of which 20 males and 10 female students Department of Physical Education. The experimental method was adopted for this study. The investigator defined the population for the study as 30 Chaudhary Devi Lal University Students. The pre and post test data of all the subjects was collected. The post test data was collected after 3 weeks of pretest data during this period certain stretching exercise were given to the subjects. The data was computed using mean and S.D. of the measured scores. The pre and post test data was analyzed using T-test and the level of significance was set at 0.01. Tools: Sit and Reach Flexibility Test, Side-Bending Flexibility Test, AAHPERD Functional Fitness Test. According to the results of pre and posttest after taking the test by AAHPERD Functional Fitness Test, hypotheses are significant difference in the stretching ability of the male players, the stretching ability of the female players, the components of sit and reach flexibility test on the male players, and the components of side bending test on the female players. Sit and reach flexibility test: Measurement of the flexibility to Sit and Reach Flexibility Test. Table no. 31 show the data Sit and Reach Flexibility Test. Side-bending flexibility test: Measurement of the side bending flexibility test. Table no 32 show the result of Side-Bending Flexibility Test. AAHPERD Functional Fitness Test.