Effects of two different game practices on body composition of school girls

AbstractThe purpose of study was to find out the effects of two different game practices on health related fitness component of school girls. To achieve the purpose of the study, thirty school girls from Alagappa fitness Academy Karaikudi Sivaganga District, Tamil Nadu were selected as subject at random. Their age group range between 12 to 14 years. The study was formulated as pre and posttest random group design, in which thirty subject were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n=10, KK-GP) underwent Kho-Kho game practice, the experimental group-2 (n=10, TB-GP) underwent throw ball game practice and group 3 served as control group (n=10, CG) did not undergo any specific training. In this study, two game practices were adopted as independent variable, i.e., Kho-Kho game practice and throw ball game practice. The health related fitness body composition of school girls were selected as dependent variable. As far as the health related fitness component was measured by standardized test item. The capacity of body composition was tested by BMI observation, the performance of the girls was recorded in Percentage (%). The selected two treatment group’s namely Kho-Kho game practice and throw ball game practice were performed five days in a week for the period of six weeks, as per the stipulated training program. The selected health related fitness component was collected before and after the training period. The collected pre and post data was critically analyzed with apt statistical tool of oneway analysis of covariance, for observed the significant adjusted posttest mean difference of three groups with respect to each parameter. The Scheffee’s post hoc test was used to find out pairwise comparisons between groups with respect to each parameter. To test the hypothesis 0.05 level of significant was fixed in this study.