Comparative Study of Physical Fitness Variables of Urban and Rural Area Players: A Comparative Analysis of Physical Fitness Variables between Urban and Rural Basketball Players

Abstract

The word physical education is derived from two separate words “physical‟ and “education”. The plain dictionary meaning of word physical is relating to body it may be physical strength, physical endurance, physical fitness, physical appearance or physical health. To fulfil the objective of the study 40 Basketball player (20 each) players was selected. The age of the selected subjects ranged from 15 to 19 years. Only (Standing Board Jump and 50-yard dash tests) were used to measures the selected physical fitness variables of the players. The study was delimited to Aapher youth fitness test. In order to analyse the data t-test was used to analyse the data and investigator observed the significant different between Rural and Urban basketball players.