COMPARISON OF PHYSICAL FITNESS VARIABLES BETWEEN INJURED AND NON INJURED ATHLETES
Keywords:
Fitness, Injury and Athletes.Abstract
The purpose of the study was to compare the physical fitness variables between injured and non injured athletes. Total 80 athletes were selected as subjects from different levels of competition. AAHPER Youth Fitness Test (1976) was used to measure the physical fitness level of the athletes. After the collection of the relevant data, it was processed and analyzed with descriptive statistics. To compare the physical fitness variables of the subjects, mean, standard deviation and t-test were employed with the help of statistical package of SPSS. To test the hyp othesis the significance level was set at .05 percent. After statistical treatment, result showed that there were significant effect of muscular strength and muscular endurance of arms and shoulders, muscular strength and endurance of trunk, agility level, explosive strength of legs, cardio – vascular endurance between the injured and non injured athletes.On the other hand no significant effect was found on Speed of lower extremities and explosive strength of legs between the injured and non injured athletes.
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