A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FLEXIBILITY VARIABLES IN SPORT PARTICIPANTS AND SPORT NON-PARTICIPANTS
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14626922Keywords:
Flexibility, comparison, participants and non-participants, t-testAbstract
Flexibility is a key factor in sports such as gymnastics, hurdling, high jumping, and tackling. Flexibility is a requirement for most dance forms. If there are inflexible issues, a muscle's ability to apply force over an extended range of motion can be compromised, leading to leanness or slowness. A decrease in speed during exercise can be caused by tight hamstrings that limit knee lift and stride length. This is an example. There is no uniform flexibleness between joints, and different body parts require varying degrees of flexibility for various sports. Flexibility is the capacity of muscles, ligaments and tendons to allow large movements of joints. Ultimately, it can be called flexible movement. Stretching the muscles and, even to a lesser extent, the tendons and ligaments can result in increased flexibility. After interviewing 150 sports and non-sports participants, the study examined flexibility measurements of 300 male adolescent individuals. The selection of sampling size for different body and flexibility measurements was made using a random sampling method in this study. The results of t-test determining in table.no.5 that mean Sit and Reach (front side) flexibility (cm) of participants who participate in sports and those not in athletics do not differ significantly. At a degree of freedom of 298, the probability value is lower than the specified level of significance (0.05), other variables’ results are described in results portion. According to the statistical tool, the all-flexibility measurements are not consistent for both participants and non-participants of the sport. Those who participate in sport have higher levels of flexibility for sitting and reaching, shoulder hyperextension, trunk hyper flexibility, and bend twists and touches compared to non-participating individuals. Variability is high among the variables of participants and non-participants' flexibility.
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