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| Article Name : | | | AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON PHYSICAL FITNESS OF THE ATHLETES OF MANIPUR | | Author Name : | | | MAIBAM CHOURJIT SINGH AND KH. RAJEN SINGH | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-83 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | This study aimed at finding the differences of physical fitness of the athletes of Manipur. The sample comprised of 200 male athletes selected from four different levels viz. district, state, national and international levels belonging to the games- fencing, soccer, taekwondo, sepak-takraw and judo. The age of the athletes ranged from 17 to 23 years. The AAHPER Youth Fitness Test, comprising of six items that is pull-ups, bent knee sit ups, standing broad jump, shuttle run, 50 mt. dash and 12 minute run/walk, were utilized to measure the various physical components like muscular strength, strength endurance, explosive strength, agility, speed and cardio-respiratory endurance. The scores were recorded as per procedure laid down for each respective test items and analyzed using ANOVA-F statistics. The level of significance was quantified by p-value. The finding concluded that the physical fitness of the athletes vary significantly both at the four levels as well as five different games of the study population at 0.01 probability level. | | Keywords : | | - athletes
- physical fitness
- levels
- manipur
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