Comparative Analysis of Selected Motor Fitness Components Between Volleyball Players and Basketball Players of University Level

Performance in Volleyball requires high level of coordination between various body parts and very good level of physical and mental fitness. Volleyball players need to be agile him/her to rapid change direction without losing momentum and should have endurance to perform sustained activity for period of long duration. Speed is defined as the capacity of moving a limb or parts of the body's lever system or the whole body with the greatest possible velocity speed of whole body movement, or of individual joint actions, is a decisive factor of successful performance in many sports. While speed is frequently the product of coordinated sequence of strength expression of joint actions. The development of speed is not synonymous with the development of strength.

Twenty subjects were randomly selected from Jiwaji University, Gwalior for this study, out of which ten subjects were from Basketball group and ten subjects from Volleyball players. The average age of the subjects was 22 years. The subjects represented Jiwaji University in the Inter University and All India, both in Volleyball and in Basketball. All of them residing in urban and rural areas. They came from different socio-economic groups.The criterion vascular Endurance, Agility, Strength of Muscles and Hand Reaction Time as measured by the "AAHPER Youth Fitness Test" and Nelsons Reaction Time Test. • Speed • Agility • Strength (Leg & Arm) • Cardiovascular Endurance • Hand Reaction Time To compare the motor ability of a "Basketball" in relation to a "Volleyball Player" "t" test was used. The level of significance was set at .05 level.

The significance of mean difference between Volleyball players and basketball on different variables in presented in table 1.

An examination of table 1 clearly reveals that there is significant difference in the performance of putting the shot in backward direction between Basketball players and Volleyball players as the obtained 't' value of 2.99 is greater than the tabulated value of 2.10 at .05 level of significance.

shuttle run, 600 mt. run and hand reaction time as the obtained value of 't' i.e. 0.20, 0.22, 0.02 and 0.03 respectively for each of the above test was lower than the tabulated value of 't' i.e. 2.10 required to be significant at .05 level of confidence with 18 degree of freedom. The findings of the present study are further supported by Doherty, Manios, Kafatos and Mamalakis Michael and others.

The findings have revealed that Basketball players have more arm strength than the Volleyball player and it attributed to the nature of activity in which they cover 100 & 200 mt. distance with top speed. To get high speed, arms movement plays important role in Basketball game . And hence the arm strength of Basketball players which found to be significantly better than the Volleyball player. The findings revealed that there was no significant difference in case of speed, leg strength, agility, cardiovascular endurance and hand reaction time between Basketball players and Volleyball players of both the games and this may be due to the reason that they perform similar kind of physical movements which require them to be more expensive and speedy.

On the basis of the analysis of data the limitations of the present study, the following conclusions may be drawn: 1. The Basketball players are batter then the Volleyball players in their performance of Arm Strength. 2. There was no significant difference in case of speed, leg strength, agility, cardiovascular endurance and hand reaction time performance between Basketball players and Volleyball players.

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