A Comparative Study of Selected Health Related Physical Fitness between National and State level Judo Players.

Although it is generally agreed that Physical Fitness is an important part of the normal growth and development of a child. Fitness is constantly changing and is influenced by many factors. Health is an important input in any process of development. An unhealthy society cannot be a society of high achievers and cannot make a nation great. The objective of this comparative study is to find out the Health related Physical Fitness of school going girls children of different board to suggest means to improve health related physical fitness. The data is gathered from total 300 girls students randomly selected of Maharashtra State and C.B.S.C. board School where 150 students of urban region and 150 students from Wardha district as subjects of this study. The age group of students are ranged from 13 – 15 years will be collected from school records. Components of health-related physical fitness are identified as muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, cardio respiratory endurance and body composition. The AAHPER (1987) Health-Related Physical Fitness Test battery consisting of following four test items will be used to assess the Health-related physical fitness for girls. After data was collected suitable Statistical Procedure Mean and Standard Deviation will be calculated and the effect will be made with the help of ‘t’ ratio. The level of significance for this study will be 0.05. Conclusion of this study is there was no significant difference has been found on one and half mile run between rural and urban girls (‘t’ value at .05 = 1.96 and .01= 2.57), Rural girls found more abdominal strength as compared to urban girls (05 = 1.96 and .01= 2.57), No significant difference has been observed on flexibility among rural and urban girls (‘t’ value at .05 = 1.96 and .01= 2.57), Urban girls have shown more triceps skinfold at significant level as compared to rural girls (‘t’ value at .05 = 1.96 and .01= 2.57), Urban girls have found to be more fat on subscapular skinfold at significant level as compared to rural girls (‘t’ value at .05 = 1.96 and .01= 2.57) and There was significant differenc has been found by the researcher on total skinfold. Urban girls found to be more fat as compared to rural girls (‘t’ value at .05 = 1.96 and .01= 2.57)