Abstract :
The present study was proposed to evaluate diurnal variations on strength endurance of football players. To accomplish the purpose of the study, thirty-five male football players in the age group of eighteen (18) and twenty-two (22) years from the colleges affiliated to Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh were considered as subjects. These subjects were classified into three groups based on their level participation in football tournaments as college level (12), inter-collegiate level (12) and inter-university level (11). The criterion variables selected in this study is strength endurance. To monitor the diurnal pattern tests were conducted at 06:00, 09:00, 12:00, 15:00, and 18:00 hours. The cosinor win software was used to examine the rhythm with regard to the criterion variable. The experimental design used for the present investigation was 3 х 5 ANOVA with repeated measures on last factors. In which, the first factor denotes different levels of football players (college level, inter-collegiate level & inter-university level) and the second factor indicated different times (06:00, 09:00, 12:00, 15:00, and 18:00 hours) of a day whenever the interaction is significant, simple effect was used as a follow up test. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 to test the significance. Based on the findings of the study, it is inferred that a time of day effect do exist on strength endurance of football players, beside there is significant difference on the diurnal rhythm among groups.
Author Name : Basamsetti Ramagopal & Dr. I. Devi Vara Prasad
Keywords: Diurnal patterns, muscular strength, Football players.
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