Mode of traveling and health related physical fitness among school students of Union Territory of Chandigarh

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyze the mode of traveling and health related physical fitness among school students of Union Territory of Chandigarh. The study was carried out on three thousand (3000) school subjects which includes fifteen hundred (1500) boys and fifteen hundred (1500) Girls of Chandigarh. The age of the subjects ranged between 13-17 years. Survey type study had been designed to compare the body composition, cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance and flexibility among different mode of traveling groups of Union Territory of Chandigarh. Initially simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of schools from the government and private schools of Chandigarh.To find out the significant difference among different mode of traveling groups, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied. Further Scheffe s Post-hoc test was applied to see the direction and significances of differences where F - ratio was found significant. For testing of hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05. The finding of the study revealed that cyclist and walker groups of participants had demonstrated significantly higher level of health related physical fitness as compared to their counterparts. newline