THE AEROBIC CAPACITY AND BODY COMPOSITION PROFILE OF ALL INDIA INTER UNIVERSITY SOCCER PLAYERS

Dr. Deepak Paswan

Abstract
Soccer has become a very popular game in the world. Almost all the nations play the soccer game both for enjoyment and competition. Modern soccer is very fast by its nature. Modern soccer is a vigorous, fast game requiring accelerating sprint, rough tackling, power in kicking and endurance to sustain skillful play for ninety minutes. The purpose of the study is to determine the aerobic capacity and body composition profile of all India university soccer players. Sixty male all India soccer players were selected randomly as subjects for this study. The criterion measure chosen to test the aerobic capacity and body composition. For testing aerobic capacity the Cooper’s 12 min. run/walk test administered .Body composition, fat percentage was estimated from four selected sites biceps,triceps, sub-scapular and supra-iliac.the collected data were statistically analyzed by using mean , standard deviation and product moment correlation . from the result of the study, it was found that there was a insignificant relationship between the fat percentage and aerobic capacity.
Keywords: Soccer, aerobic capacity, body composition and Endurance.