doi no.: 05-2016-44975451, DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/04.2019-96968862/

Dr. Sandip Sankar Ghosh ¹

Affiliations

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India,  Mob. +919432486653,  sandipsankarmal@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Objective:  The objective of this study was to compare cardio-respiratory fitness in terms of VO_2max between rural and urban college female of West Bengal.  Subjects: Sixty (N=60) female college students were randomly chosen from a large population of which thirty (GR_U=30) were chosen from urban area and rest thirty (GR_R=30) students were chosen from rural areas of West Bengal. The subjects belonging from rural area were chosen from the Govt. Institute of Education for Women, Hastings House, Alipore, Kolkata-27. On the other hand the subjects belonging from rural areas were chosen from two colleges of Hoogly district of West Bengal. The age ranged between 18-25 years.  Variable Studied: In this project only one variables was studied i.e. cardiovascular fitness (CVF) in terms of VO₂max and it was measured by   Queen’s College Step Test (QCST) Statistical analysis: To find out significant difference in CVF between GR_U and GR_R statistical t-test was used. The significance of means were tested at p<0.05 level of confidence. For statistical calculations Excel Spread Sheet of windows version 7 will be used. Results: The results suggest that the rural female were significantly superior in VO2max than the urban female.

Keywords:  Cardiovascular fitness, VO₂max.

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