ABSTRACT

Maximal oxygen consumption reflects the cardio respiratory fitness of an individual and is an important determinant of their endurance capacity during prolonged exercise. To achieve the purpose, a total number of twenty four male  (N=24)subjects were selected and in which  twelve subjects (n-12) were from the Madras Veterinary College students  and  twelve subjects were from (n-12)  the Sports Authority  of  India, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Their age were ranged from 19 to 21 years.  The dependent variable selected as VO2max. The selected criterion variable VO2 max test was assessed with Beep test. One of the well-known and widely used functional tests for indirect evaluation of VO2max is the 20 m. shuttle run test (Beep test). The collected data were treated with independent’ t’.test. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05. The study of results showed that the versatile sports persons had significantly better VO2max compared with college level sports persons.