STRENGTH ABILITY BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN COLLEGIATE ATHLETE STUDENTS

 Dr.Sinku Kumar Singh and Piyush Jain

 ABSTRACT

The primary objective of the study is to find out the strength of rural and urban student Athletes and to determine the strength level among rural and urban students. 150 Rural and 150 Urban collegiate Athletes students from P.E.S College of physical education various colleges of Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University Nanded, voluntary to participate in the health related physical fitness programmes. Exclusion criteria were the presence of chronic medical conditions such as asthma, injuries, heart disease or any other condition that would put the subjects at risk when performing the Health tests. The subjects were free of smoking, alcohol and caffeine consumption, antioxidant supplementation and drugs during the programmes. The age, height, weight, and strength of all subjects were measured in physical education department laboratory and Field. The result reveals a statistically significant difference of pull ups (p<0.05) between rural and urban collegiate students. However,  the result reveals  a statistically significant difference of sit ups (p<0.05) and right hand grip was found between rural and urban collegiate students. The results of present study showed that strength was better in rural students.

Keywords: Strength, Athletes, Rural and Urban