The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of nutritional drink and nutritional bar supplementation on the muscular endurance and cardiorespiratory endurance of college students. To achieve the purpose of the study 90 college women students from various Arts and Science College, Chennai were selected randomly. Selected subjects were somewhat taking part in sports activities in their respective colleges. Selected subjects were divided into three equal groups of 30 subjects each namely nutritional drink supplementation group (NDSG), nutritional bar supplementation group (NBSG) and control group (CG). Age group of the subjects ranged from 18–22 years. Supplementation was given to them daily for a period of 12 weeks. Pretest and post test data were collected on the selected subjects before and after the experimental period on muscular endurance and cardio respiratory endurance. Collected data were analysed by using the statistical procedure ANCOVA and the level of significance was fixed as 0.05. It was concluded that nutritional supplement groups showed significant improvement on muscular endurance and cardio respiratory endurance than the control group.
Muscular Endurance, Cardio Respiratory Endurance, Nutritional Drink/Bar