Comparative study of prescribed exercise programme on flexibility of rural and Urban BA general physical education girls

Abstract

Flexibility is an essential component of physical fitness. The purpose of the study is to test improvement of the flexibility of rural and urban girls after 8 weeks selected exercise programme. The subject was randomly selected, Total subjects were 80 and their age (18-21) years. They were divided into two groups. One is control and another one is experimental. Flexibility was measured by Sit & Reach Test (Johnson & Nelson, 1982). For statistical analysis ‘t’ test was used and level of significant was determined at 0.05 level and 0.01 level. The flexibility of rural girls of (18–21) years was better than that of urban girls due to exercise programme.