Volume: 43 Issue: 1
Year: 2023, Page: 456-461, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51248/.v43i01.1340
Introduction and Aim: Physical fitness is a combination of several aspects rather than a single characteristic. Skill related components include agility, balance, coordination, these are regularly associated with motor skill performance. Composition of the body, its strength, endurance, flexibility, come under health-related components. Therefore, agility and flexibility are vital parameters for selection of wrestlers in various weight categories. The performance of the wrestlers is affected by reduced flexibility and agility. Ample literature is there in western countries in this area of research however very few studies have been performed on Indian wrestlers. Therefore, the aforesaid project was started for assessing the effects of training and its interval on agility and flexibility with age and sex matched healthy controls and among wrestlers and to find the correlation between flexibility and agility, on skinfold thickness and BMI.
Materials and Methods: Flexibility was assessed by sit and reach flexibility test and agility was tested with Illinois agility test for thirty-five wrestlers aged from eighteen to twenty-five years practicing regularly in district stadium was compared with age and sex matched controls.
Results: It was found that agility and flexibility were to be greater in wrestlers than controls and was significant statistically. Negative correlation was seen among BMI, flexibility, agility and Skin fold thickness, but not statistically significant.
Conclusion: It can be said that increased duration of training shows improvement in agility and flexibility thus decreasing the percentage of injury and refining the performance. Although there was not much difference with BMI and skinfold thickness with agility and flexibility.
Keywords: Wrestlers; agility; flexibility; BMI; skinfold thickness
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