Assessment of minimum muscular fitness on tribal students in the nilgiris

This study was designed to assess the minimum muscular fitness of tribal students in the Nilgiris. To achieve the purpose of the study 1000 tribal students were selected from the Nilgiris district their age ranged from 14 to 17 year. The minimum muscular fitnesswas assessed by Kraus Weber Minimum Muscular Fitness Test. Kraus Weber test is a pass or fail test consists of six test items such as abdominal plus (or) hip flexors, abdominal minus (or) abdominals and hip flexors, psoas and lower abdomen (or) abdominals, upper back, lower back and length of back and hamstring muscles (or) flexibility. The data collected from the subjects was statistically analyzed and presented in a form. From of result of the present study, it was speculated that the observed significant difference in minimum muscular fitness of tribal students. From of result of the present study, it was speculated that the observed significant difference in minimum muscular fitness of tribal students. The present study comprises the study of tribal life and their relation to fitness in historical as well as in modern perspective. But now a day tribal people are lose their fitness because of model lifestyle.(Thakur, 1994) The flexibility item not only accounted for the greatest number of these failures, but at every age level caused the girls to appear more “muscularly fit” than the boys. From of result of the present study, it was speculated that the observed significant difference in minimum muscular fitness of tribal students.