A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ANTHROPOMETRIC VARIABLES AND KINESTHETIC SENSE BETWEEN

VOLLEYBALL AND FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Dr. Deba Prasad Sahu, Dr. Biswabandhu Nayek and Dr. Kallol Chatterjee

Abstract

The world of games and sports has crossed many milestones, as a result of different achievements in general and their application in the field of sports in particular. Scientific investigation into performance of sportsman has been playing an increasingly importance role to attain excellence of performance in different sports.  Now the sportsman has been able to give outstanding performance because of involvement of new scientifically substantiated training methods and means of execution of sports exercise such as sports techniques and tactics. The purpose of the study was to investigate the difference on Anthropometric and the kinesthetic sense between state level volleyball and Football players.  For the purpose of the study 20 state level volleyball player were selected from Hooghly and North 24pgs District, West Bengal and 20 state level Football players were selected from Burdwan, Bankura, North24pgs District, West Bengal. The age of the subjects were in between 19-22 year were selected as the subjects for this study. Arm length, leg length, Waist girth, Calf girth and kinesthetic sense were considered as the variables of the study. Student ‘t` test  was applied to calculate the collected data at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that there was no significant difference in Calf girth between state level volleyball players and Football players and significant different in Arm length, leg length, Waist girth, kinesthetic sense between state level volleyball players and Football players.

Keywords: Arm length, leg length, Waist girth, Kinesthetic sense, Calf girth.