An Analysis among Physiological and Physical Fitness of Middle Distance and Long Distance Runners

Present investigation was carried out in order to compare the `Physiological and Physical Fitness among the Middle Distance and Long Distance Runners. A total of 20 Inter-varsity level Runners (i.e. Middle Distance N=10 and Long Distance Runners N=10) age ranged from 18 to 25 yrs were selected from Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior. Through both the critical and allied literature pertaining to the problem under consideration the following Physiological and Physical Fitness variables were selected- Speed, Agility, Cardio-Respiratory Endurance, Vital Capacity, Resting Respiratory Rate, Resting Pulse Rate, Peak Expiratory Flow Rate. The entire analysis has been carried out by using statistical software (SPSS 17 version) to address the objectives of the study. To find out the mean difference among the selected variable of Physical and Physiological variables, Multi-Variate Statistical Technique MANOVA was applied, further to find out the critical difference Uni-Variate Statistical technique, One-Way Analysis of Variance was applied in the selected variable, Further to find out the real difference LSD Post hoc test needs to be done. The result indicates that a significant difference was found in all the Physical Variables i.e. Speed, Agility and Endurance of Middle Distance and Long Distance Runners. Also a significant difference was found in some of the Physiological variable i.e. Resting respiratory rate, Resting Pulse rate Whereas an insignificant difference was found in the Vital Capacity and Peak expiratory flow rate of Middle Distance and Long Distance Runners.