A study on assessing minimum muscular fitness of school children – A Kraus-weber test

Abstract

The presented study was to assess the school children’s minimum muscular fitness by using Kraus-weber test. In the study total one hundred fifty four (154) subjects were taken (88 boys and 66 girls) all were students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidhyalaya, Balrampur Chhatishghar India. Their age ranging from 11yr to 14yr. The data were assessed all six tests items of Kraus-weber test. Item 1 straight leg sit ups (A+P), Item 2 bend knee sit ups (A-P), Item 3 supine leg raise (P), Item 4 prone back raise (UB), Item 5 prone leg raise (LB), Item 6 floor touch (F) in school only. The collected data was analyzed by computing the descriptive statistics and chi square test to assess the profiling of children’s minimum muscular fitness. For testing the hypothesis, the degree of significance was set at 0.05. Statistical analysis was conducted by using statistical packages for social science (IBM SPSS 20 Version). As a result the findings states that there is no significant association was found between gender and minimum muscular fitness as α >0.05, χ2 (1) = 3.143, α = 0.076, where we do not reject the null hypothesis whereas there is a statistically significant association between the age groups (11yr-14yr) and the minimum muscular fitness as α -value < 0.01, χ2 (3) = 36.805, hence the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore it conclude that in the selected children of the study minimum muscular fitness is not significantly associated with gender but the minimum muscular fitness is significantly associated to the age of the children.