A Study of Physical Assessment in relation to Lifestyle among Different Game Players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to identify the physical assessment among selected sports i,e, Volleyball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Kabaddi, and Cricket for identifying the physical assessment of athletes of these games. In our study total number of subjects were 300 College level male athletes (Volleyball (50), Basketball (50), Football (50), Hockey (50), Kabaddi (50), Cricket (50) aged ranging from 19 to 28 years. Subjects were selected from various colleges of Ghaziabad. Physical assessment were assessed through questionnaire of Lifestyle Assessment Inventory by Anspangh David S. Michal, H. Hamrich and Frank D. Rosato for findings scholar used Analysis of variance (ANOVA) as statistical tool. The result revealed the football game players are better in relation to physical assessment than the players of cricket, hockey, volleyball, basketball or the Kabaddi players. Though, Kabaddi players are also scored better than cricket, hockey, basketball and volleyball game players but still lack behind the football players. The result of the study also revealed the lowest score for hockey game players in relation to their physical assessment. Whereas, Basketball, Volleyball and Cricket game players required good amount of physical strength than the hockey game players.