期刊名称：Facta Universitatis : Series Physical Education and Sport
印刷版ISSN：1451-740X
出版年度：2010
卷号：8
期号：02
出版社：University of Niš
摘要：The purpose of this cross-sectional study was of two-fold: firstly, to evaluate the back strength of Indian inter-university male cricketers and secondly, to study its relation to leg strength, along with selected anthropometric characteristics. Thirteen anthropometric characteristics were from 98 Indian inter-university male cricketers aged 16–25 (mean age 21.03, ± 1.72), all students at nine Indian universities, and the competition was held in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. An adequate number of control participants (n = 99, mean age 21.50, ± 1.13) were also collected from students at the host university for comparison. The findings of the present study indicated statistically significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) in weight, BMI, thigh length, total leg length, biceps, triceps, sub-scapular and calf skinfolds, percentage of body fat and back strength between the cricketers and control participants. The striking findings of the present study were that back strength showed significant positive correlations only with leg strength but not with any of the other studied anthropometric characteristics.
关键词：Anthropometric characteristics, back strength, leg strength, Indian inter-university male cricketers
