A Study of Haemodynamic and Aerobic Fitness Profile of Football Players

The purpose of this study was to observe haemodynamic and aerobic fitness profile of football players. Thirty (N=30) male college football players between the age of 17 and 28 years volunteered for this study. The mean age, height and weight of football players was 21±3years, 172.63±8.64cm and 71.56±10.75Kg respectively.The mean resting pulse rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure, rate pressure product, stroke volume, cardiac output and VO2 max was 69±4beats/minute, 120±3mmHg, 78±3mmHg, 42.07±4.71mmHg, 91.67±2.94 mmHg, 83.06±5.05beats.min-1.mmHg, 57.38±5.65ml/beat, 3.97±0.28 L/minute and 42.60±2.26 ml.kg-1.min-1 respectively. It was concluded from the results of this study that college level football players have less values of haemodynamic and aerobic fitness variables than elite level football players and athletes of other countries. Thus, they may need to focus on improving haemodynamic and aerobic fitness variables and this could be a focus of their training programme.