Effect of Taekwondo and Kalaripayattu Practice on the Selected Health Related Physical Fitness among Adolescent Boys
Authors/Creators
- 1. Vice – Principal, Mother Teresa College of Physical Education & Research Scholar, Karpagam University, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.
- 2. Head i/c, Department of Physical Education. Karpakam University, Karpagam Academy of Education, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.
Description
The purpose of the present study is to find out the effect of Taekwondo and Kalaripayattu practice on Health Related Physical Fitness of Cardio respiratory Endurance and Muscular strength among the adolescent boys. For achieving the purpose of the study total of 45 subjects are selected as samples from the Higher Secondary School. Their age group is between 15 to 17 years and the selected subjects are divided in to three groups equally with 15 subject each, as an Experimental Group-1 with Taekwondo Practice, Experimental Group – II with Kalaripayattu practice and Control Group. The Experimental Group – 1 and Experimental Group –II practiced in their respective training for a period of eight weeks in a schedule of weekly three days for the duration of two hours each. The pre and posttest are conducted on the selected Health Related Physical Fitness of Cardio- respiratory endurance and Muscular strength of adolescent boys before and after the eight weeks of experimental training. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is used as a statistical difference to know the significant diffidence between pre and post test data on the selected variable of Health Related Physical Fitness of Cardio-respiratory endurance and Muscular strength. If the adjusted post test result is significant, the scheffe’s post hoc test is used to determine the significance of the paired mean difference. The level of significance is fixed at 0.05 levels. The statistical findings of the study revealed that the Experimental Group done the Taekwondo and Kalaripayattu practice and significantly improved on the Health Related Physical Fitness of Cardio-respiratory Endurance and Muscular strength control group.