Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to compare the flexibility of various joints in respect of college men’s and women’s students and also to find out the flexibility of the joints by the stated four methods. For the purpose of this study, the sixty students (30 men and 30 women students) as sample were collected from the institution of Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya at Haripal in the district of Hooghly in the state of West Bengal in India. The institution was located in the area of rural locality. The data of the subjects were collected on the basis of random sampling procedure. The dates of birth were collected from their birth certificates and according these the age was calculated in the nearest years. The age range of the subjects of two groups was 20-25 years. For the purpose of the present study, the four criterion measures of flexibility has taken such as shoulder elevation test, trunk extension test, knee flexibility test and ankle flexibility test. The results of men group was Mean ± SD as 85.39±21.02; 35.33±7.57; 3.58± 1.99 and 5.85±1.17 in respect of shoulder elevation test, trunk extension test, knee flexibility test and ankle flexibility test. Similarly, the Mean ± SD values of women group was 84.31±17.17; 31.28±7.04; 2.75± 1.30 and 5.60±1.00 in respect of flexibility measurement tests. The present study revealed that all the mean values of men group were greater than the women group in respect of flexibility of different joints. The study was found that the calculated values such as 2.443 and 1.927 were greater than the tabulated values as 1.672 are significantly existed at 0.05 levels in the trunk flexibility test and knee flexibility test. It was also found that the calculated values such as 0.215 and 0.879 were less than the tabulated values as 1.672 were not significant in two groups in respect of shoulder elevation test and ankle flexibility test. In the present study it would concluded that the flexibility of two groups were differ in respect of different flexibility tests of various joints.