Effect of various nutritional supplements on the selected physical variables of women students

Understanding the role of nutrients on the physical performance is essential. Undoubtedly sports training always increase the sports performance but acquiring the knowledge about nutritional supplements during training is important for the physical education fraternity. A study was conducted to find out the effect of various nutritional supplements on the selected physical variables of women students. To achieve the purpose of the study 30 women college students from various colleges in Chennai were selected randomly. Selected subjects were divided into three equal groups of ten each. Experimental group I was given 12 weeks of sports drink and experimental group II was given 12 weeks of nutritional bar supplementations and control group was not given any specific nutritional diet. Pretest and posttest was conducted on the selected subjects before and after the experimental period on speed and agility. Collected data was analysed by using statistical procedure ANCOVA to find out the significant difference. The level of confidence was fixed as 0.05. It was concluded that nutritional drink supplementation group showed significant improvement on speed and agility than nutritional bar supplementation group and control group.