Blood pressure and pulse rate among national level male football, Basketball and hockey players

The purpose of the present study was to compare the blood pressure and pulse rate among selected national level male football, basketball and hockey players. For the purpose of the study, sixty (N=60) national level male players (twenty for each game) from Chandigarh (UT) were selected as subjects of the study by using stratified random sampling technique. The age of the subjects ranged between 19-25 years. To find out the significance differences selected national level male football, basketball and hockey players, one way ANOVA was used with the help of SPSS software. Further Scheffe’s post-hoc test was applied to see the direction and significance of differences where ‘F’ ratio was found significant. The level of significance chosen was .05. There were no significant differences obtained on blood pressure and pulse rate among national level male football, basketball and hockey players on blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) and pulse rate.