Volleyball Player Fitness: Anthropometric Assessment

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PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL
FITNESS AND ANTHROPOMETRIC VARIABLES
AMONG VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS
Dr. Manish Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Lovely Professional University,
Phagwara, Punjab, India
T.P. Liyanage, Senior Lecturer Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Dr. Harpreet Singh Bedi, Assistant Professor, School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (LFTS) Lovely
Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
Muhammed Anver D (Reg.no.12102646) MPEd Student, Department of Physical Education, Lovely Professional
University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
Dr. Deepak Pandey, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Lovely Professional University,
Phagwara, Punjab, India
Abstract
Recently, several research works in the training of team games has been developed the fitness profile for every
single sport. Although, usually the team sports training needs a complicated strategy to understand the entire
physical fitness variables that effects the whole game. The development in the level of physical fitness also needed
to achieve the superior performance results. Each athlete from the team as the sport involve the certain physical
fitness profile due to specific features as well as necessities for every game position. However, some common
aspects can be elaborated as compare to other sport. The precise significance of physical fitness profiles becomes
essential to select the proficient talent. It requires the appropriate training of elite population to make a better 5974
volleyball team. This paper offers an analytical work on the physical fitness variables to check the level of elite
young male volleyball players from all-India University. Researchers have conducted several trials on interUniversity and intra- university basis in order to select better players according to superior physical fitness level.
However, the Indian athletes particularly from the universities still require the thorough study on the physical
fitness variables in order to offer a top- ranked team to the country. In this suggested work, there is the comparison
of physical fitness level among all India Inter University and Inter- University levels.
Keywords— Volleyball, Physical Fitness, Anthropometric, Physical Education, Physical Fitness Profile, Fitness
Effectiveness, Good health and well-being.
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INTRODUCTION
Volleyball becomes an intermittent game that needs
the athletes to compete in high-intensity exercise
involving frequent short bouts, subsequent by the lowintensity activity. The layers need the well-developed
aerobic/anaerobic energy systems that consist of highintensity training programs during the complete match
(90 minutes). Neuromuscular system has some
considerable demands at the high-intensity court
movement, numerous jumps (spiking/blocking) and
sprints that happen frequently during competition. Due
to this, volleyball athletes need and maximal aerobic
power (VO2 max), well-developed lower- body/upperbody muscular power, agility and speed. Numerous
research work has reported on the physical fitness
profiles of elite volleyball athletes. These studies show
that the fitness of athletes enhances with the rise of
playing level. Investigators made comparison among the
performance characteristics as physical fitness
levels among All-India inter university and Interuniversity players. In previous work, it was found a
substantial difference in features of VO2 max, 20-m
seed, spike jumps and higher block among national level
players, representing the significance of physiological
capacities during the selection of top-level volleyball
athletes. Furthermore, researchers also examined the
selection of anthropometric and physiological aspects
that can efficiently separate the varsity, junior varsity
and freshman volleyball teams from the beginner and
professional volleyball players. Altogether, such
outcomes show a correlation among the physical fitness
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variables and the achieved playing level for good health
and well-being.
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However, numerous research work has reported the
features of physiological capacities among elite
volleyball athletes, examinations of the physiological
capacities of freshman volleyball players are limited.
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Such outcomes show that developments in the playing
capability may exist without any contributing
progression in the anthropometric, physical and
physiological features of athletes. The physical fitness
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level can decide the success of any volleyball team.
Moreover, the progress in the standards of physical
performance for volleyball team would permit the
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instructors to recognize the weaknesses of players and
further develop the certain training sessions to increase
the playing performance of such players. Due to this,
the main objective of this research is to investigate the
physical fitness aspects of male volleyball players
competing at all-India inter- university and interuniversity levels and to build the novel performance
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standards for good health and well-being.
Background
Volleyball sport is well recognized and accepted
worldwide, especially in India, which is a very diverse
country. India has participated at both amateur as well as
professional level. With the progress in this sport,
coaches, athletes and teams just want one thing i.e. the
best performance, although to attain this is not that
simple to make it happen. Thus, volleyball needs a lot of
field study, particularly about the latest techniques and
sports achievements. Scouting sessions to gifted players
seedling progress in advanced nation’s successes have
been executed with the support of suitable resources
[1]. Consisting not only from the public/government
funds, although support proficiency via cross-scientific
technique and interdisciplinary. The complexity in the
area of computation and assessment along with the
exploration of tools that can be utilized to envisage an
individual's achievement motivates us to research
efficiently in recognizing and choosing the correct
candidates who are going to transform into talented 5975
volleyball players.
Scouting procedure involves the detection and
identification of correct talent that becomes an action
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considering the preference by instructors and
professional training for developing and enhancing the
physical fitness aspects. Such criteria is utilized to search
the suitable candidate. There are several advantages of
using the scientific criteria in talent identification
procedure, such as;
Significantly decreases the time needed [2], to attain the
greatest capability to select the candidates who are
talented in the game,
Decrease the amount of energy/work performed by the
coach. The efficiency of a provided workout trainer is
generally supported by the players who have the
superior capability as compared to others,
Provide better competitive environment with high
number of athlete’s entry and the accomplishment of a
great capacity resulting as a homogeneous national team
with stronger appearance at the global level,
Boost the athlete’s confidence due to the better view as
compared to the other athletes having same age who do
not appear in the selection procedure,
Indirectly encourage the scientific training application.
The assistant sports trainers who support the new
talents and continue to observe the exercise player.
The certain ability that stands out in someone that
made a person different is known as his/her special
talent. For instance, basic skills such as motor
performance or the motion appearance as well as the
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integration of several competences (involving body
shape and attitude). Anthropometric plays an essential
part in discovering the deserving talent as the steps
used in the body measurement consist of basic ability
against the motion performance. Length of the limbs or
the high weight and body mass index can usually play a
significant part in specific games. Although, during the
initial phases of talent selection in specific streams,
coaches consider the harmonious
physical
development. Anthropometric variables can
check the shoulder, hip and leg joints, hip width along
with the proportion among the hip and shoulder width
and others.
Volleyball is a very dynamic sport, classified by
several jumps (spiking/blocking), sprints and high
intensity motions that happen frequently at the game
II.
and tournament [5]. A successful performance of this
movement structure reliant on the physical and
anthropometric performance attributes [6]. The
differences in anthropometric attributes as well as
physical capabilities makes players to give a different
performance levels, instead of the playing position for
volleyball [7-9]. Anthropometric dimensions is the
significant part in estimating the player’s success [1012]. Quite obviously, investigators show a lot of interest
in the body composition and anthropometric
characteristics of an athlete from various competitive
games over the previous few years. The anthropometric
features show whether the athlete is fit for the game at
the greatest level in certain competition [13]. Likewise,
physical fitness becomes a sensitive indicator of
nutritional status and physical growth of athlete for
their optimum performance [14].
Physical fitness in any sports is greatly reliant on
genetics in relation with exercises, personality,
nutritional status, height, ethnicity, socioeconomic
status, gender and age [15]. Appropriate assessment of
such attributes are predicted the quantification of
morphological features of top- level players that could
be crucial in connecting body structure as well as sport
performance [15]. Numerous research work have
investigated the correlation among the physical fitness,
physiological and anthropometric attributes of the
volleyball players. The results of this research have
depicted that the physical fitness features have special
advantage for volleyball athletes, involving lower body
fat percentage, larger mass, great upper body strength,
greater vertical leap distance and larger thigh [13].
Instead of the presence of studies correlated to physical
fitness features of volleyball athletes, standardized
information is needed on such attributes in the nation.
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The human body can consider several postures
where physical fitness always represents the anatomical
position, such as standing with his head and eyes point
forward, the fingers pointing down, upper arms hanging
on both sides, and legs concurrently with the toes
pointing forward. Physical fitness data retrieval approach
is misleadingly easy. Although, the physical fitness
progress hardly attained without excessive training.
Several players appear to attain rational ability after
performing repetitive measurements and must have
appropriate physical fitness certification [16-17]. The
main objective of this research is to investigate the
correlation among the physical fitness features with the
performance of the players in volleyball game.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This research methodology provides a systematic
procedure to examine the subject from the beginning of
problem detection to the conclusion. The main objective
of this study is to develop an approach that assess the
physical fitness level among the young male volleyball
players. This paper concentrates on to explain the
process including the proper selection of the subjects,
physical fitness variables selection, data collection,
statistical procedures, results and discussion.
Participant Selection
This research has the aim to analyze the playing
potential in terms of checking their physical fitness level
of volleyball players between the all India and Inter
University level athletes. This work performed an
analytical survey on 120 students from All India level
players and 120 students from various colleges in North
India states. The focus of this study is on the age group of
17-25 years students, with at least three years of prior
playing experience at all India and Inter University levels
of Volleyball tournaments.
Attributes Selection
The current investigation examine the physical
fitness features of young and talented volleyball players.
Participants are coming from the all- India and Inter
University levels. The entire participants conducted
standard physical fitness measurements involving the
speed, agility, power, reaction time, balance etc. during
the competitive
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stage of the season, after achieving the highest level of
the fitness. A fitness profile for each participants have
been generated in order to improve their performance.
According to the results, a progressive improvement in
the physical fitness features can also enhance the
playing level of any volleyball team.
Fitness Testing Battery
Standard physical fitness test involves body mass,
standing reach height, upper/lower-body muscular
power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, maximal
aerobic power and other factors as discussed in details
in the upcoming section. Athletes were informed to
refrain from energetic training session for minimum
forty-eight hours before to the fitness program and to
take their routine pre-training nutrition just before the
testing program. The testing program started with the
measurements of physical fitness. Afterwards, athletes
underwent the measurements of other features such as
lower/upper-body muscular power (spike jump/vertical
jump and overhead medicine ball throw), speed and
agility measurements. Participants conducted two
rounds of trials for the muscular power, speed and
agility, with a short break of nearly 3 minutes among
each trials. Athletes were motivated to do low-intensity
actions as well as stretches among trials. The fieldtesting session concluded upon the finishing of the
respective trials with athletes doing the multistage
fitness examination (projected maximal aerobic power).
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The potential to produce the high levels of upperbody muscular power at the time of serving/spiking
becomes a crucial variable of volleyball athletes. An
overhead medicine ball throw can estimate the upperbody muscular power. Athletes placed in the throwing
direction one-step behind a line marked on the ground,
with a 3-kg medicine ball held in both hands behind the
head. Volleyball athletes need high levels of lower- body
muscular
power
to
complete
the
jumping/blocking/spiking actions that are often
implemented during the tournament. It was evaluated
by using spike jump and vertical jump tests by utilizing
the vertical jump device. Athletes were placed to stand
with feet flat on the ground, and mark the standing
reach height by extending their hand/arm. Every
participant was told to spring upward and touch the
device at the highest possible
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point after considering the crouch position. Vertical jump
height is known as the distance from the highest point
attained at the time of standing and the highest point
attained at the time of vertical jump. Vertical jump height
was calculated to the nearby the 1 cm, with the greatest
value attained from two trials utilized as the vertical
jump score. In both cases, vertical jump and spike jump
use same process. Athletes were then told to take a
spike/run-up method and leap as high as possible of both
legs.
Volleyball athletes need the capability to move
rapidly in order to locate themselves to receive a
block/pass a shot from the rival. The assessment of
athlete’s running speed was performed by conducting
sprint effort using electronic timing gates. The position of
timing gates were at 5 m and 10 m from the initial point.
Athletes were told to run as speedily along the 10-m
distance from an initial point. Speed was calculated to
the closer to
second, with the fastest value achieved from the two
trials utilized as the speed score. Volleyball athletes need
the capability to instantly change direction with
decelerate/accelerate. The participant’s agility was
assessed utilizing a T-test involving the electronic timing
gates. The four cones were located at 5 m distance in the
inverted ‘T’ shape. Athletes were told to run as rapidly as
possible during the agility run.
COLLECTION OF DATA
To achieve the objective of this research, the
examination randomly chose 240 volleyball athletes as
the subjects from All-India and Inter- University levels
from several location of Northern India consisting the
Delhi University, Haryana University, Punjab University
and Manipal University Jaipur. The participants have the
age group 18-25 years coming from various places. The
subjects had the prior volleyball experience of minimum
two years. The considered subjects are from the zonal
team level. This study assists in estimating the playing
capability and skills during the volleyball tournament by
including two forty men from All-India and InterUniversity level athletes. It involved the selection of
substantial motor fitness and physical fitness variables
such as;
Length measurements- Standing
height, Arm
span/length, Hand length/breadth, Leg length and Palm
length
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b) Girth measurements- Arm girth relaxed/flexed, Chest,
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Waist, Hip, Thigh, Calf;
c) Breadth measurements- Femur breadth and Humerus
breadth
d) Motor fitness attributes- Power, Balance, Speed, Agility,
Co-ordination and Reaction Time.
e) Body weight
The main performance attributes show the playing
capability of athletes that were particularly assessed
with the help of experienced Volleyball instructors. The
current study consists 40 independent variables as well
as 1 dependent variable, represented as playing
capability of volleyball players. Data collection was
taken for the statistical assessment as explained in
upcoming sections. Pearson’s product-moment
correlation coefficients can compute to find the
correlation between chosen motor fitness attributes
and anthropometrical variables with the volleyball
playing potential of the players. This research work also
consists the playing position assessment of the athletes
such as Blockers, Liberos, Setters and Spikers with their
respective sample size as N = 66, N = 43, N = 46 and N =
85.
Arm
Tape
span
7
Arm
Length
8
Palm
Small
Sliding
length
Caliper
9
Hand
breadth
10 Hand
length
Girth Measurements
11 Calf
Lufkin Anthropometric In Centimete
Tape
rs
12 Thigh
13 Hip
14 Waist
15 Chest
16 Arm girth
flexed
17
Arm
girth
relaxed
Table-2 Motor Fitness variables
Attributes
Measuring
SI Units
Table – 1 Anthropometric, Physical and Physiological S.
No.
Tool
attributes with their respective measurement and
testing tools and SI unit
1
Reaction
Chronoscope
In
Time
Seconds
2
Co- ordination Alternate
In Numbers
S.
Variabl es Measurement/Test ing SI Units
Hand
Ball
No
tools
Toss Test
.
3
Balance
Stork Stand
In
1
Body
Electronic
In Kilograms
Seconds
weight
Weighing Machine
4
Leg explosive Standing broad In Meters
power
jump
Breadth Measurements
2
Femur
Lufkin Anthropometric In Centimete
5
Agility
T Agility Run
In
breadth Tape
rs
Seconds
3
Humeru s
6
Speed
50 Meters run In Seconds
breadth
Length Measurements
4
Height
Stadiometer
5
Leg
Lufkin
length
Anthropometric
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IV.
rs
RESULT & DISCUSSION
The existing research work involves forty
independent attributes and one dependent attribute,
referred as playing potential of volleyball athletes. Data
collection was subjected to conduct the statistical
assessment as described in upcoming sections. Pearson’s
product-moment correlation
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coefficients can compute to find the correlation between chosen motor fitness attributes and anthropometrical
variables with the volleyball playing potential of the players. This study also involves the analysis of playing position
of the players such as Blockers, Liberos, Setters and Spikers with their respective sample size as N = 66,
The testing process of hypothesis with respect to the outcomes achieved related with the
confidence level. Such examination was often known as the assessment of significance subsequently it examines
whether the correlation among the predictor variable and criterion were substantial or not. This study involves the
assessment of data on SPSS software by using the t-test on this sample size that involves several attributes and
N = 43, N = 46 and N = 85.
made comparison in between All- India Inter-University as well as Inter-University volleyball players. It also
mentions the value of mean and standard deviation for all the considered anthropometric and motor fitness
attributes.
Table 2: Comparative analysis of Physical Fitness attributes among All-India Inter-University and Inter-university
Level Volleyball players. N=240 (Sample size: 120 All India Level, 120 Inter-University Players)
Variables
InterUniversity
All-India Inter- t- valu
University
e
Level
Mean
S.D.
Mea
n
S.D.
Agility
19.38
1.52
17.48
1.69
8.74
Speed
7.87
0.78
6.71
0.42
15.0
9
Power
46.62
7.03
50.64
8.27
4.21
Reaction time 0.117
0.01
4
0.118
0.01
2
0.04
Balance
17.47
8.63
29.92
4.94
13.7
2
Coordinati
on
18.69
1.67
17.68
1.27
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Height
180.9
6.42
1
184.3
8.91
3.62
8
Weight
70.07
8.48
73.43
9.07
2.92
Body Mass
Index
(BMI)
Leg
Length
21.38
2.21
21.49
2.21
0.48
100.1
5.39
103.7
6.09
5.11
Upper Leg
Length
Lower Leg
Length
Arm Length
50.4
8
42.9
1
81.2
8
33.4
6
29.9
2
24.8
9
5.17
50.86
4.32
0.59
3.14
44.42
2.78
3.57
4.19
81.36
3.99
0.10
2.08
33.71
2.19
0.61
2.48
28.97
1.40
3.21
2.50
26.59
2.12
5.61
23.1
1
2.29
24.18
1.62
3.74
87.7
2
9.32
89.91
11.8
9
1.56
47.9
1
6.72
51.68
4.31
5.30
33.6
4
2.82
34.29
2.98
2.01
7.68
0.77
8.12
0.60
3.86
Upper Arm
Length
Forearm
Length
Upper Arm
Circumfere
nce
Forearm
Circumfere
nce
Chest
Circumfere
nce
Thigh
Circumfere
nce
Calf
Circumfere
nce
Bi-condylar
Humerus
Diameter
Biacromial
Diameter
2
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2
2.06
43.47
2.18
3.72
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Triceps
Skinfold
Thickness
Subscapular
Skinfold
Thickness
Suprailliac
Skinfold
Thickness
Calf
Skinfold
Thickness
Body
Density
7.57
Percentage
Body Fat
10.3
2.87 7.42
1.95 9.78
2.81
2.27
0.59
2.21
8
11.4
3.38 10.81 4.95
1.30
8.48
2.69 8.28
2.82
0.50
1.05
0.00 1.065 0.00
2.75
9
4
14.3
2.52 13.41 3.38
2.71
2.60 9.89
3.18
0.77
6.68 63.51 7.29
3.89
Endomorph
y
Mesomorph
y
Ectomorphy
2.81
0.68
2.61
0.90
2.20
3.41
1.52
3.78
1.19
2.10
3.58
1.11
3.73
1.18
0.90
Vital
Capacity
3.94
0.58
5.21
0.71
14.1
7
Inspiratory
Reserve
Volume
Expiratory
Reserve
Volume
Inspiratory
Capacity
1.81
0.38
2.41
0.42
10.6
8
1.39
0.31
1.79
0.38
8.21
2.69
0.30
3.20
0.39
10.4
9
8
6
7
* indicates p<0.05
Total Body
Fat
10.2
Lean Body
Mass
59.8
1
9
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Graphical representation of the above table have been categorized into four parts due to the complexity of
data and large number of attributes as shown in Fig. 4.3, Fig. 4.4, Fig. 4.5 and Fig. 4.6 respectively.
Comparative analysis of Physical Fitness attributes among All-India Inter-Universityand
Inter-university levels volleyball players (Part-1)
200
150
100
50
0
Mea
n
Agility
InterUniversity
S.D
.
Speed
Balance
Coordination
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Leg Length
Mea
n
All-India
Level
Power
Height
S.D
.
Reaction time
tvalue
Weight
Fig. 4.3 Graphical representation of comparative analysis of Physical Fitness attributes among All-India InterUniversity and Inter-university levels volleyball players (Part-1)
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Comparative analysis of Physical Fitness attributes among All-India Inter-Universityand
Inter-university levels volleyball players (Part-2)
100
80
60
40
20
0
Mea
n
InterUniversity
S.D
.
Mea
n
All-India
Level
Upper Leg Length
Lower Leg Length
Arm Length
Forearm Length
Upper Arm Circumference Forearm Circumference
Thigh Circumference
Calf Circumference
S.D
.
tvalue
Upper Arm Length
Chest Circumference
Fig. 4.4 Graphical representation of comparative analysis of Physical Fitness attributes among All-India
Inter-University and Inter-university levels volleyball players (Part-2)
Comparative analysis of Physical Fitness attributes among All-India InterUniversityand Inter-university levels volleyball players (Part-3)
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Mea
n
InterUniversity
S.D
.
Mea
n
All-India
Level
S.D
.
tvalue
Bi-condylar Humerus Diameter
Biacromial Diameter
Hip Diameter
Bi-condylar Femur Diameter
Biceps Skinfold Thickness
Triceps Skinfold Thickness
Subscapular Skinfold Thickness Suprailliac Skinfold Thickness
Calf Skinfold Thickness
Body Density
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70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Mea
n
InterUniversity
S.D
.
Mea
n
All-India
Level
S.D
.
tvalue
Percentage Body Fat
Total Body Fat
Lean Body Mass
Endomorphy
Mesomorphy
Ectomorphy
Vital Capacity
Inspiratory Reserve Volume
Expiratory Reserve Volume
Inspiratory Capacity
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Inter-University and Inter-university levels volleyball players (Part-4)
V. CONCLUSIONS
This research work has the objective to search and The present research work depicted the derived
assess the certain constituents of physiological outcomes and with the help of them subsequent
variables, anthropometric measurements and physical recommendations have been developed. Such findings
fitness among the All-India Inter- University level and are quite useful for the trainers, coaches and physical
Inter-university level volleyball players. In addition, this educators for scrutiny and choosing the capable
work also presents the data analysis of volleyball players Volleyball athletes at All-India Inter- University and Interaccording to their respective playing position with the University levels. The outcomes of this research work
specific attributes to measure motor fitness level and study can assist the instructors and trainers in upgrading
anthropometric variables. The findings reveal a and sequencing their physical activity at several levels of
substantial difference in several constituents of physical Volleyball athletes. In addition, the findings of this
fitness among the volleyball players of All-India Inter- research work can also help in introducing the several
University level and Inter-university level. A substantial approaches of training by highlighting the development
difference was monitored among observed between All- factors that are substantially related with the
India Inter-University level and Inter- university level performance of Volleyball game at different levels. It is
volleyball players in terms of agility.
also recommended to involve the participants from
The outcomes of greater coordination, balance, lower age groups with the conduction of similar study on
power, speed and agility in All-India Inter- University International Volleyball players. Thorough work can be
level volleyball players may reveal in their competition performed with the other sports/games where certain
intensity as well as higher training at the great standards utilized for computing the success depending
performance level. Conversely, there is no difference of on the game performance. Present research work
reaction time among All- India Inter-University level and illustrates the subsequent recommendations as the
Inter-university level volleyball players that was future directions for further studies:
indirectly enumerated by Nelson hand reaction time
a) This research work has the scope to expand further for
examination.
the comparative analysis
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b)
c)
d)
e)
between national and international level volleyball
players.
Coaches, trainers and physical education instructors can
utilize the outcomes of this research work as to help in
selecting the young talented volleyball players.
This research work can be expanded for comparative
analysis of several other sports disciplines such as
handball or basketball with the examination of their
differences with each other.
The equivalent research work may be performed by
choosing a great volume of participants having the
different performance level and gender apart from the
present work.
It is proposed to carry the longitudinal research work
with the participants considered in this research work
may be conducted to evaluate the other aspects of
contributing attributes with their influence on playing
performance of volleyball athletes.
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