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| Article Name : | | | RESPIRATORY FUNCTION VARIABLES OF BASKETBALL PLAYERS ACCORDING TO PLAYING POSITIONS | | Author Name : | | | Amandeep Singh | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4562 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The purpose of this study was to examine respiratory function variables among male basketball players in relation to different playing positions i.e. guards, centers and forwards. The present study was conducted on a sample of sixty (N=60) male basketball players (mean ± SD: age 20.67 ± 1.64 years, height 1.80 ± 5.23 m, weight 72.67 ± 5.03 kg, BMI 22.18 ± 1.62), which includes twenty each guards, centers and forwards, who participated in inter-college competitions of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. All the participants were informed about aim and methodology of the study and they volunteered to participate in this study. All the participants were assessed for height, weight and selected respiratory function variables. The height of the subjects was measured with anthropometric rod to the nearest 0.5 cm. The weight of subjects was measured by using portable weighing machine to the nearest 0.5 kg. Respiratory function variables i.e. vital capacity, forced vital capacity and maximum voluntary ventilation were measured with “Med-Spiror” a computerized spirometer. One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied to find out the significance of differences with regard to selected respiratory function variables among basketball players of different playing positions. | | Keywords : | | |
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