Comparative study of muscle mass of school sports persons in Lucknow zone

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the muscle mass of different sports persons. For the present study, 90 male sports persons were randomly selected as a sample from the School Games Federation of India (SGFI). All samples were selected from the Lucknow zone. The age of the subjects ranged from 15 to 17 years. The data was analyzed by a One-Way analysis (ANOVA) test to determine the difference in Muscle mass among 15th, 16th, and 17th years age group sports persons. The significant difference was found for further analysis LSD post-hoc was used to analyse the mean differences and their significance. For testing the hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05. The finding of the study showed that there was a significant difference in the obtained value of Muscle among 15th, 16th & 17th years sports persons. The muscle mass of 17th year of sportspersons is higher than the 16th year and 15th year sports persons.