Twelve weeks study of body composition and trunk flexibility between football and squash players from pre to post test

Sports training aims at achieving greater performance in the sport competitions. Sports training emphasize on the facts and principles, and executed in a systematic manner. Physical fitness is a limited phase of motor ability emphasizing capacity for vigorous work (Mathews, 1979). The sports person planned his training schedule every day with proper execution under the able guidance of a coach. Training is a pedagogical process, based on scientific principles, aiming at preparing sportsmen for higher performance in sports competitions (Singh, 1991). The purpose of this study was to compare the body composition and flexibility performance of the football and squash players from pre to post test. A group of 100 subjects under going physical education course were considered for this study, football players N=50, squash players N=50 were selected randomly, the age of the participants were between 18 to 22 years. Football and squash training was employed on the participants for 45 minutes per session, twice a week, for 12 weeks respectively. The test which was considered for the subjects was body composition (body mass index), flexibility (sit and reach test). The data was analyzed by the help of mean, standard deviation, and t-test by the help of statistica software. The analysis of the data shows significant performance with regard to body composition and flexibility among both the groups from pre to post test. Further more the data reveals that both the groups differ significantly with regard to body composition and flexibility performances. It is concluded that both the groups with regard to body composition and flexibility had shows significant performance from pre to post test.