A comparative study of motor fitness between rural and urban athletes of Kushinagar

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare motor fitness components of Rural and Urban Athletes of Kushinagar. For this study two hundred Athletes were selected randomly. One hundred Athletes from Rural areas and one hundred from urban areas of Kushinagar were selected. In this study following Motor Fitness Variables were taken into consideration. Speed, Strength, Endurance, Agility, Flexibility. The data collected for each variable administering their respective tests. To ensure that the data collected were reliable. Sufficient numbers of trials were given to each subject to perform their respective tests for each variable. AAHPER youth fitness test was used to measure Motor fitness of Rural and Urban Athletes of Kushinagar. To compare Motor Fitness of Rural and Urban Athletes of Kushinagar mean, standard deviation and t-test were used. The rural athletes were found superior to urban athletes in relation to motor fitness. The level of significance of was set at 0.05.