A Comparative Study of Anthropometric Variables and Physical Fitness Variables of Residential and non- residential Tribal Players of Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India .
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 7
Abstract
A cross sectional study of the anthropometric variables and physical fitness variables was carried out on 782 boys and girls, aged 12+ to 17+ years from Tribal residential and non-residential school of Bastar dist of Chhattisgarh. The study was aimed to compare stature, body weight, 50 m run, 10*4 m shuttle run and vertical jump to measure motor fitness components. Height and weight measurements showed increasing trend with age in both groups of boys and girls, but it is not uniform in all the ages. However, comparison revealed that, there was no difference in height and weight measurements in residential and non-residential boys and girl of all the age group but the motor fitness variables exhibited better scores for boys and girls of residential school.
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Sharma M, Varoda A, Venugopal R, Gupta O
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