Introduction

Physical fitness is the ability to last, to bear up and to preserve under difficult circumstances where an unfit person would give up. It is opposite to being fatigued from the ordinary efforts lo lacking the energy, to enter zestfully into life activity and to be exhausted from unexpected demanding physical exertion*."

Physical fitness is the sum of total five motor abilities namely strength, speed, endurance, flexibility and co-operative abilities. These five muter abilities and their complete forms are the basic prerequisites for human motor actions. Therefore the sports performance in all depends upon delete these abilities. The improvement and maintenance of physical fitness is perhaps the most important aim of sports training. Physical fitness is the capacity to perform physical activity, and makes reference to a full range of physiological and psychological qualities. The different types of games and sports needed different type of training and skill but the physical fitness and conditioning almost the same. Some requires more strength some requires more endurance and some other requires speed but have in gymnastic required flexibility more. Each sport requires a different type and level of physical fitness and as a result a different type of fitness training or conditioning is 5 required for different sports. Some sports like distance running require a very high level of endurance but a low level of other motor abilities.

The performance of a sportsman in any game or event also depends on muscular strength, agility, power, speed and cardiovascular endurance. Along with these physical variables, physiological and psychological components also play an important role in the execution of the performance. Best suited activity and new training methods achieve excellence. The aim of the present study was to determine the differences in selected physical fitness characteristics between the kho-kho and Kabaddi players of Delhi.

The health-Related components of physical fitness are cardiovascular endurance, body composition, flexibility, and muscular strength and muscular endurance. Cardiovascular endurance is the ability of the heart, blood vessels, and respiratory system to work efficiently delivering oxygen to the muscles for an extended period of time. Walking, jogging,

or even an athletic career. You see, your strength, power, speed and even your endurance require a sufficient range of motion to perform in the best way possible. With this in mind, it’s no surprise that flexibility has a strong connection to athletic performance. The simple fact is that if a muscle is tight and inflexible, you won’t be able to utilize its full strength potential. And, since the body works as a combination of muscles, one weak muscle can ruin the whole kinetic chain (movement through multiple body segments) during your performance. Therefore, athletes must maintain a sufficient range of motion required in their sport to ensure athletic progression without the risk of injury.

Agility is the ability to change the body's position, and requires a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, and strength. In sports, Agility is described in terms of response to an opposing player, moving target, as seen in field sports and racket sports. In short, Agility is the ability to change body position or direction of the body rapidly. This ability is measured with running tests that require the subject to turn or start and stop. Agility is also influenced by balance, coordination, position of centre of gravity, running speed and skill. Agility can be improved by practicing specifically for a sport but also by improving the specific individual elements of speed, balance, power and co-ordination. Agility helps in improvement of the flexibility and also allows us to maintain proper balance and posture while making steep moves thereby avoiding strain and injuries. It improves the physical and mental coordination thereby leading to an improved body coordination and reaction time. It also helps in the shortening the recovery time during the game.

Objective of the study

The purpose of the study is comparing the study of Physical Fitness variables of Speed, Flexibility and agility among kho-kho and kabaddi female players of Delhi.

Review of the Existing Literature

The research scholar has also attempted to review the literature available with the libraries related to physical education, sports and education from different universities of Haryana. Also, research work done prior to this has also been referred from the online repository of Shodh Ganga to get more insights into the topic. Some of the related references have been provided in this section.

endurance and flexibility between kabaddi and kho-kho male players.

Dr Manju (2021) published a paper titled “A comparative study of selected physical fitness variable between Kabaddi and Kho-Kho inter university female players of Bijnor” in International Journal of Yogic, Human Movement and Sports Sciences. The purpose of the study was to compare the selected physical fitness variables between Kabaddi and Kho-Kho players. A total of 60 female subjects (30 each in Kabaddi and Kho-Kho) age ranges from 18 to 26 were selected purposively for the study from different colleges of Bijnor (up) who have participated in inter university tournaments. The data were collected for different physical fitness variable by administering AAHPER youth fitness test i.e. arm and shoulder strength in terms of flex elbow hang, abdominal strength and endurance in terms of number of completed bent knee sit ups in one minute, agility in terms of nearest tenth of seconds using shuttle run test, power in terms of feet & inches using standing broad jump test, speed in terms of nearest tenth of second using 50 yard dash run, cardiorespiratory endurance in terms of nearest tenth of second using 600 yard run/ walk. For the analysis of data, independent t-test has been employed. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The significant differences was not found between Kabaddi and Kho-Kho players on all variables abdominal strength and endurance, agility, power, speed and cardio-respiratory endurance

Sunil Kumar , *Sahajad Singh,**Rajendra Shalikram Gore(2011) published paper titled “A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SELECTED PSYCHOPHYSICAL FITNESS COMPONENTS OF KABADDI AND KHO-KHO PLAYERS OF DELHI SCHOOLS” in international Journal of Research in Social Sciences And Humanities. The main purpose and objective of the present study was to compare the Kabaddi and Kho-Kho players on the selected physical and mental abilities. The purpose of the study one hundred players- 50 from the game of Kabaddi and 50 from the Kho-Kho has been selected on purposively and randomly basis, who has won medal/ position in Delhi Scholl Zonal, Inter-Zonal and participated in National School Games during the 2009 and 2010. All the subjects were regularly practicing and competing in their respective sports competition.

Methodology

Selection of Variables

The two-tailed P value is less than 0.0001
By conventional criteria, this difference is considered to be extremely statistically significant.

The difference in mean of Kabaddi and Kho- Kho for Speed is 1.3349 which is more than 10%

For the Flexibility the two-tailed P value equals 0.0002. This difference is considered to be extremely statistically significant.

The mean of kabaddi minus Kho-Kho equals for Flexibility -2.09

The two-tailed P value is less than 0.0001 for agility. By conventional criteria, this difference is considered to be extremely statistically significant.

The mean of kabaddi minus Kho-Kho equals 0.9876 for agility

Conclusion

It is evident from the results that Kho-Kho players have better physical fitness than the Kabaddi players in terms of the Speed, flexibility and endurance. This relates to the alertness of the players required in the game. While Kho-kho and kabaddi requires good amount of physical fitness, but it has been observed that the nature of Kho-kho requires more flexibility and speed among the players.

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