Volume : IX, Issue : VI, June - 2019

Normative values of step up – step down test and sit up test in adolescent girls.

Rutuja Suresh Chaudhari, Suvarna S. Ganvir

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Background – Physical activity level is a way to express a person’s daily physical activity as a number, and is used to estimate a person’s Total Energy Expenditure. Evaluation of this subject is important because of sedentary lifestyle and lack of parental education towards physical fitness in India. Also, participation of the subject declines as reproductive changes start occurring during this period. Method – Ethical committee approval was obtained from IEC prior to begin the study. 100 students were selected for the study. To investigate the level of physical activity PAQ was used. After that two physical activity tests viz. Step up – step down test and Sit up test were administered. Normative data was established and the means were compared between the two (physically active and inactive) groups. Result – 24 girls were found as physically active and 76 were inactive. Conclusion – the normative value of step up test is 17 and sit up test is 16. Level of physical activity affected the performance on these to scales. . Level of physical activity affected the performance on these to scales

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NORMATIVE VALUES OF STEP UP‾STEP DOWN TEST AND SIT UP TEST IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS., Rutuja Suresh Chaudhari, Suvarna S. Ganvir INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-6 | June-2019

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