Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to compare of selected physical fitness and physiological components between women offensive and defensive kho-kho players. To achieve this purpose of this study, sixty women kho-kho players who participated in the South West Zone Inter University Women Kho-Kho Tournament held at Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India during the year 2009 – 10 were selected as subjects and their age ranged between 18 to 24 years. Among them, thirty offensive and thirty defensive kho-kho players were selected. The following physical fitness and physiological variables such as speed, agility and breath holding time were selected as depended variables for this study. The selected criterion variables such as speed, agility and breath holding time breath holding time were tested by using 50 meters run, shuttle run and holding the breath for seconds respectively. The independent ‘t’ ratio was used to analyse the significant differences between university women offensive and defensive kho-kho players, if any separately for each criterion variable. The .05 level of confidence was fixed to test the level of significance. The results also showed that there was a significant difference between offensive and defensive women kho-kho players on selected physical fitness and physiogical variables namely speed, agility and breath holding time.
Author Name : Dr. P. Karthikeyan
Keywords: Offensive, Defensive, Kho-Kho, Speed, Agility.
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