VOLUME: 10, Special Issue 01, (IC-IESP-MULTI-2023) Paper id-IJIERM-X-I, January 2023 446
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN ENGINEERING RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT ISSN: 2348-4918 Peer Reviewed and Refereed Journal
INVESTIGATION OF SELECTED ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM
Dr. Mahendran Kumar Mishra
Sports officer Atal Bihari Vajpayee government Arts and Commerce college Indore
There are numerous factors which are responsible for the performance of sportsman and women. The physique and body composition including the size, shape and form are known to play a significant role in this regard. Therefore it is evident that the body build popularly known as "physiognomy" gets primary emphasis at the time of selection of players for concerned sports, to assess the related components as a part of the total build and size of each player and also to interpret how far these components are helpful to performance in games and sports under competitive conditions.
Football is an exciting sport require a great deal of courage and strength. The quick reaction and action reflects are the secret of the technique. Learning Football besides a challenge of wits is ideal technique for attack and-defense against attack from opponent- team, Anthropometry is that branch of anthropology that is concerned with the measurement of human body. This definition can be contained to the kind of measurements commonly used in associating physical performance with body build.
Anthropometrical techniques are useful to study the body sizes and shape of the masses. This information is helpful in acquiring in greater understanding of those attributes which contributes to performance in sports. Physical performance e.g. speed, strength, power, endurance depends strongly on the amount of free producing tissues, the application of forces through the levers of the limbs and the adaptation of training.
Anthropometry has greatly contributed to sports medicine management. Physiotherapist in sports medicine clinics uses anthropometry in the everyday treatment and rehabilitation of the injured. Measurement of body size include such descriptive information as height, weight and surface area while measurement of the body proportion describe the relationship between height and weight and among length, width and circumference of various body segments. It has been bound that top athlete in some sports tend to have those proportional that biomechanically aid the particular performance required.
Anthropometric measurement consists of objective measurements of structure and functions of the body that is why the science of anthropometry has important place in sports and the sports performance. For classification as well as for comparison of certain measurement such as the ratio of height weight, length of the limbs depth and width and the circumference of different parts of the body have an important role in the field of sports performance.
Anthropometrical variables under investigation are height, arm length, leg length and total body weight one's height is the distance between bottom of the foot and top of the head. Arm length is the distance between the acromion to the tip of the third finger. Leg length is the distance measured from the bottom outside edge of the center of the foot to the upper edge of the greater trochanter. Lean body weight and fat body weight are combined called as total body weight.
In physical education coaches and scientists have long realized that the performance of an individual is greatly influenced by such factors as height, weight and body structure.
The performance diagnosis can only be done through definite knowledge and the understanding of physical characteristics and their relationship of the complex movement mechanism.
Purpose of study was to investigate the anthropometric measurements of footballer . The significance of study is to fix norms of body size and shapes of footballer.
VOLUME: 10, Special Issue 01, (IC-IESP-MULTI-2023) Paper id-IJIERM-X-I, January 2023 447
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN ENGINEERING RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT ISSN: 2348-4918 Peer Reviewed and Refereed Journal
A review of literature related to the present study on the prediction of performance as well as on the relationship of anthropometric measurements, physical and physiological variables to performance of various games and sports available in the libraries of College of Physical Education.
The subjects for the study were selected sixteen 16 Footballers of College team who participated Maharashtra State Football Championship. The age of the subjects was ranging from 18 to 25 years, ten Footballers from each weight category Selection of variables. The following variables were selected for the present study.
Anthropometric Measurements
Above table shows the minimum and maximum and average of height, arm length, bicep girth, shoulder widths, leg length, thigh girth, and calf girth, of college football players .
