Health related physical fitness among secondary school students

Abstract

The study was intended to explore the level of physical fitness of rural and urban secondary school students. In context to same, 600 respondents were selected within the age groups of 18-21 years from both sampling sites (Rural and Urban). Initially the investigator framed the sampling list. Subsequently, whole data was selected by using Random Sampling Technique (RST). Sit and reach test, Harvard Step test and Push Up tests were used for collecting the required data. The data was subjected to statistical treatment by using Mean, Standard Deviations and ‘t’ value. The results indicate that there exists a significant difference between of rural and urban secondary school student’s on all the selected components of physical fitness, viz. Cardiovascular Endurance (CE), Muscular endurance and flexibility. Thus, impact of locality was reported insignificant on the level of physical fitness of the respondents.