A comparative study on physical fitness among Kabaddi and Kho- Kho players

Abstract

Physical fitness is a state of health, well being and more specifically, the ability to perform aspects of sports, occupations and daily activities. The purpose of the study was to find out the physical fitness among Kabaddi and Kho-Kho players of district Baramulla of Jammu and Kashmir. To achieve the purpose of the present study, 50 subjects were randomly selected from different colleges of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, in which 25 were Kabaddi and 25 were Kho-Kho players. The age of the subjects are ranging between 18 to 25 years. To measure the level of physical fitness among Kabaddi and Kho-Kho players AAHPER youth fitness test was used. The findings of the present study directs that the variable strength is significant (p0.05) among Kabaddi and Kho-Kho players. The data was statistically analyzed by applying simple‘t’ test. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05. Further on conclusion it was found that the Kabaddi and Kho-Kho players significantly differ on the variable strength. However it was found that Kabaddi and Kho-Kho players show insignificant difference on the variables power and speed.