Comparison of Leg Strength Gripstrength and Back Strength among the Wrestlers Weightlifters and Jodokas of College Students

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the leg strength, grip strength and back strength among the Wrestlers’, Weightlifters and judokas of college students. The subjects were selected from the Wrestlers’ Weightlifters and Judokas of different degree colleges in Jharkhand for this study. Ten (10) male athletes from each group namely Wrestling, Weightlifting and Judo were selected as the subject for the study. Variables such as leg strength, grip strength and back strength were presented to compare the student athlete belonging to Wrestling, Weightlifting and Judo. To see the significant difference of leg strength, grip strength and back strength among the student athletes belonging to Wrestling, Weightlifting and Judo the analysis of variance “F-ratio” was applied at.05 level of significance. For further analysis “Post-Hoc Test” (LSD Test) was applied. There is a significant difference in leg strength among Wrestlers, Weightlifters and Judokas as calculated F (4.04) is greater than Tabulated F (3.35).The Weightlifters shown significantly different level of leg strength (192.5) in comparison to Wrestlers (165.8) and Judokas (163.5). However, the Wrestlers and Judokas had shown more or less same level of leg strength. In case of back and grip strength there was no significant differences among Wrestlers, Weightlifters and Judokas as their calculated F (1.89) and (1.73) is lower than tabulated F (3.35) respectively. However, there were small ranges of variations as Weightlifters had the greater mean value (141.5) than Wrestlers (128.3) and Judokas (132.9) and Judokas had the greater mean value (52.7) than the Wrestlers (51.1) and Weightlifters (49.3) in relation to back strength and grip strength respectively.