COMPARISON OF STAMINA LEVEL FOR PERFORMING PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES BETWEEN THE MALE PARTICIPANTS AND MALE NON-PARTICIPANTS STUDENTS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AT COLLEGE LEVEL

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Dr. Mehwish Manzoor
Sairh Jabeen
Reema Aman
Sadia Mahreen
Muhammad Rizwan Nawaz

Keywords

Physical Activity, Performance, Participants, non-participants

Abstract

The regular performance of physical activities has lots of benefits in our lives. Exercise and physical activity during adolescence may positively effect on the physical fitness levels and body composition. If a person engages him/herself in physical activities will remain physically fit and can maintain healthy body composition which is the key of life. This research is based on male colleges of northern Punjab. There is total 112 males’ colleges in the northern Punjab from which 21 colleges were selected and 210 participators and non-participators were collected. Four physical activities were compared like speed, general endurance, flexibility and power. This research revealed that the participators have more stamina as compare to non- participators in terms of speed and flexibility. The general endurance and power levels were same in the both groups. The mean difference in the speed is 11.58095 seconds and general endurance 2.91905 feet were found in both groups. The flexibility mean difference is 0.29381 centimeters and power 0.22019 feet were obtained in participators and non-participants.

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