2024, Vol. 11, Issue 6, Part C

1. To assess the physical fitness profiling of All India Inter-University ranked badminton players.

2. To find out the most prominent physical fitness variable suitable for profiling of university-ranked badminton players.

Methods: Physical profiling of All India India-ranked badminton players was done for physical profiling. A total of 19 subjects of the All India Inter-University ranked badminton players (W) team were selected for the study. Physical fitness variables i.e. Cardiovascular Endurance (CV), Explosive Strength (ES), Speed (SP), Coordinative ability (COA), and Flexibility (FIX) was assessed during the All India Inter-University tournament. The subjects comprised teams that qualified for rounds of all Indian Inter University tournaments. The teams were Jain University, Delhi University, SRM University, & Adamas University, representing All Indian ranked female badminton players. To assess and compare the physical fitness variables among All India University-ranked female badminton players, descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA were used with the SPSS 25.0 version. The level of significance was set at 0.05.

Results: The study found that there will be no difference in physical fitness variables among all Indian-ranked badminton players. It was found that there were insignificant differences in Cardiovascular efficiency (CV) where p>0.05 (p=.141, f=2.114), Explosive strength (ES) where p>0.05 (p = .053, f = 3.229), Speed (SP) where p> 0.05 (p = .718, f = .455), Sideways Agility (SW CO AB) where p>0.05 (p = .387, f = 1.082), Four Corner Agility (FR CO AB) where p>0.05 (p = .505, f = .815), Flexibility (FIX) p>0.05 (p = .068, f = .673). Thereby, it was found that all physical fitness variables were insignificant among all India university-ranked badminton players.

Conclusions: The study indicated that the physical fitness variables' physical profile was found that the mean of Cardiovascular efficiency was 121.84, which as per norms indicates in the excellent category of Harvard Step Test Norms. Further, the mean of Explosive Strength was 30.05, which indicates players are in the excellent category. The mean Speed was 6.67 seconds, which was in the excellent category as per norms. The mean of sideward agility and four-corner agility were 19.78 & 36.45 as respectively. The last Physical Fitness variable was Sit & Reach flexibility in which the mean was 10.95 and was found that female badminton players had excellent flexibility. However, the results of the physical fitness profile of university-ranked badminton players testing seems to be at the same level in regard to the ability relative to university-ranked badminton performance. The results of this study describe the physical fitness profiles of all Indian university-ranked badminton players. They can also help coaches in identifying and choosing new badminton players/athletes.