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| Article Name : | | | COMPARISON OF SELECTED RESPIRATORY FUNCTION VARIABLES OF ATHLETES ENGAGED IN INDIVIDUAL SPORTS AND TEAM SPORTS | | Author Name : | | | Amandeep Singh | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-208 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | The purpose of the study was to compare the respiratory function variables of athletes engaged in individual sports and team sports. The present study was conducted on a sample of sixty (N=60) male athletes, which includes thirty each, individual sports (N1=30, mean ± SD: age 21.13 ± 1.43 years, height 176.43 ± 5.11 cm, weight 67.87 ± 6.03 kg, BMI 21.70 ± 1.61) and team sports (N2=30, mean ± SD: age 20.50 ± 1.96 years, height 178.90 ± 6.29 cm, weight 71.03 ± 7.95 kg, BMI 22.14 ± 1.61) athletes who participated in inter-college competitions of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. All the participants were informed about the aim and methodology of the study and they volunteered to participate in this study. All the participants were assessed for height, weight and selected pulmonary function variables. The height of the subjects was measured with anthropometric rod to the nearest 0.5 cm. | | Keywords : | | - individual sports
- team sports
- vital capacity
- forced vital capacity
- maximum voluntary ventilation
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