Comparative Effect of Resistance Running on Vital Capacity between Untrained Tribal and Non-Tribal School Boys

Resistance running has also proven to be a safe and effective method of conditioning for individuals with various needs, goal and abilities. The research scholar was very much interested to learn that the effectiveness of resistance running out of many available training techniques for scientific and systematic manifestation of specific strength endurance potentialities which were admired as the prerequisites factor for top sports performance and that too on tribals as well as non-tribals school boys and thereby such study was being undertaken. The purpose of the study was to find out the Comparative effect of Resistance running on Vital Capacity between untrained Tribal and Non-Tribal School Boys. To facilitated the study, twenty tribal and twenty non-tribal school boys of 8th and 9th standard were randomly selected from each categories as the subjects for this study. Subjects were randomly assigned to experimental and control group selected from each category as the subjects for this study (N=20). The Resistance running training was executed in the evening session on three alternative days (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) in a week for twelve weeks. In this study, the variable under taken were Vital Capacity measured by Wet-Spirometer, which was recorded to the nearest in liters. In order to find out the existence of significant differences between the experimental group and control group in each category as well as between tribal and non-tribal school boys on vital capacity undertaken in this study in pre, post and adjusted post-test phases, the analysis of co-variance statistics was applied. Further, in order to find out the existence of significant difference between tribal and non-tribal school boys in vital capacity, the Post hoc-test was used between the paired group means in tribal as well as non-tribal school boys categories. The level of significant was set at 0.05 level of confidence. Based on the findings it was concluded that resistance running was best to be used in developing vital capacity of human body an also suggested that due to the effect of resistance running training, untrained tribal school boys showed better performance in vital capacity than untrained non-tribal school boys.