| The purpose of this study was to study and compare the selected respiratory parameters between inter-college level male individual and team sport athletes. A sample of Sixty (N=60) male athletes, which includes thirty each individual and team sport athletes of age ranging from 18 to 25 years, who actually participated in inter–college competitions of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India, was selected. All the participants were informed about aim and methodology of the study and they agreed to participate in this study. The study was conducted on selected respiratory parameters i.e. vital capacity, expiratory reserve volume and inspiratory reserve volume. Independent sample student t test was applied to find out the significance of differences with regard to selected respiratory parameters between individual and team sport athletes. The alpha level was set at 0.05. Results revealed significant differences between inter-college level male individual and team sport athletes with regard to vital capacity (p< 0.05), expiratory reserve volume (p<0.05) and inspiratory reserve volume (p<0..05) respectively. While comparing the means, it revealed that team sport players had better vital capacity, expiratory reserve volume and inspiratory reserve volume than their counterparts; individual sport athletes. |