A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SELECTED PHYSICAL FITNESS VARIABLES BETWEEN SCHOOL LEVEL KABADDI AND KHO-KHO PLAYERS

Abstract

The present study has been designed to investigate the Agility and reaction time of kabaddi and kho-kho players. For accomplish the study total 50 players (25 kabaddi and 25 kho-kho) were randomly selected as Govt high school Mettupalayam. The age of the subjects was ranged from 14-17 years. To measure the agility, we used the shuttle run test and to measure the reaction time lllinois test in the study. The data was analysed by applying ‘t’ test in the order to determine the difference of endurance between kabaddi and kho-kho players. The level of significance was set at 0.05. A significant difference was observed between kabaddi and kho-kho players in their agility and reaction time. We find out that kabaddi players having more agility and reaction time in comparison of kho-kho players.