COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOMETRIC VARIABLES OF COLLEGE LEVEL FEMALE LONG JUMPERS AND SPRINTERS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare selected anthropometric and physiological variables of college level female long jumpers and sprinters. Fifteen female sprinters and fifteen female long jumpers of Post Graduate Government college sector-11 Chandigarh were tested by using standard instruments and following standard techniques. The range of age for all female sportspersons lies from 20 to 25 years. The selected anthropometric measurements like body height, body weight and lower limbs and physiological variables like resting heart rate, blood pressure and Vo2 max were taken. In order to ascertain significance of difference between the two group, student‘t’ test was employed and the level of significance was set as .05 level of confidence. The ‘t’ test values has shown significant differences for anthropometric variables (t test values for height & body weight 2.28 and 2.50 at 5% level, for lower limbs 5.37 at 1% level respectively) and non-significant for physiological variables (for resting heart rate 1.48, for blood pressure 0.03 and for Vo2 max 0.97 respectively) between female long jumpers and sprinters.