To Compare Basketball Players' and Sprinters' Physical Fitness Measures Such as Body Composition, Strength and Endurance
- 1. Associate Professor, Department of physiology, Darbhanga Medical College, Laheriasarai, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
- 2. Assistant Professor, Department of physiology, Darbhanga Medical College, Laheriasarai, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
- 3. Professor & HOD, Department of physiology, Darbhanga Medical College, Laheriasarai, Darbhanga, Bihar, India, India
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Aim: A comparative study of physical fitness parameters between basketball players and sprinters. Methods: This study was done the Department of physiology, Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga, Bihar, India for 6 months. 50 basketball players and 50 sprinters aged between 15 and 20 years and playing at various levels in Darbhanga bihar were selected for our study. Various physical fitness parameters were assessed in Exercise and Sports Physiology Lab. Physical and physiological parameters such as height, weight, upper segment, lower segment, arm span, body-composition, strength, and endurance were assessed. Results: The highly significant difference between two groups for height and weight. Arm span and upper body segments were statistically significant between two groups, whereas the difference in lower segments was not significant. Only lean body mass was a statistically significant when compared between basketball players and sprinters. Bench press, bench squat, and leg dynamometry were statistically significant between two groups, whereas there was no substantial difference in back dynamometry. Endurance was highly significant for the lower body while significant in the upper body between these two groups. Conclusion: Our study observed significant variances in the anthropometric features of sprinters and basketball players. Here in, basketball players were taller, heavier with more lean body mass than sprinters, but the experimental group was far-off behind the international standards. Equally important is the fact that the weight of a player has to be more attributing to more lean body mass and not just fat mass or fat percent.
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Aim: A comparative study of physical fitness parameters between basketball players and sprinters. Methods: This study was done the Department of physiology, Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga, Bihar, India for 6 months. 50 basketball players and 50 sprinters aged between 15 and 20 years and playing at various levels in Darbhanga bihar were selected for our study. Various physical fitness parameters were assessed in Exercise and Sports Physiology Lab. Physical and physiological parameters such as height, weight, upper segment, lower segment, arm span, body-composition, strength, and endurance were assessed. Results: The highly significant difference between two groups for height and weight. Arm span and upper body segments were statistically significant between two groups, whereas the difference in lower segments was not significant. Only lean body mass was a statistically significant when compared between basketball players and sprinters. Bench press, bench squat, and leg dynamometry were statistically significant between two groups, whereas there was no substantial difference in back dynamometry. Endurance was highly significant for the lower body while significant in the upper body between these two groups. Conclusion: Our study observed significant variances in the anthropometric features of sprinters and basketball players. Here in, basketball players were taller, heavier with more lean body mass than sprinters, but the experimental group was far-off behind the international standards. Equally important is the fact that the weight of a player has to be more attributing to more lean body mass and not just fat mass or fat percent.
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