COMPARISON OF CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE AND SPEED BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL FEMALE STUDENTS OF BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY PAKISTAN

Syed Muhammad Ghufran Hadier Hamdani, QingZhong He, Syeda Urooj Fatima Hamdani, Syed Muhammad Zeeshan Haider Hamdani, Syed Muhammad Danish Haider Hamdani
2017 International journal of research - granthaalayah  
The purpose of the present study was to determine which group of female students urban/rural has better physical fitness performance in tests. Samples comprised of 72 females' students (36 urban and 36 rural), this represented 10% of the population from each school of Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan Pakistan. Two physical Fitness components: speed and cardiovascular endurance were assessed using 60 Meters Speed test for speed and Harward Step Test for cardiovascular endurance. Descriptive
more » ... tatistics examine the characteristics of the samples and Independent 't' test was employed using IBM SPSS Statistics 22 software. The results indicated that urban girls' performance was superior to the rural girls in speed (9.29Mean) and cardiovascular endurance (5.97Mean) in both physical fitness tests urban girls' physical fitness level was higher. The findings of this study proved that the results of this study are unique and shows that urban girls have more physical fitness trend than urban girls, moreover it was also discovered for future studies that the cultural, social and living environment had a great impact on the physical fitness of females in Pakistan.
doi:10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i5.2017.1868 fatcat:yamagpgzvvhs5k2zcpqihtisv4