The Relationship between Body Fat Percentage with Speed, Agility and Reaction Time of Male Football Players of Bangladesh

Year 2016, Volume 4 - Issue 4, 453 - 460, 28.12.2016

Arif Mohammad Abu Tareq

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between body fat percentage with
speed, agility and reaction-time of Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP) male football
players. To work on the purpose 16 football players who were in their age of 15 to 16 years
and having training in BKSP, were recruited as the subjects. The data on the variables such as
percentage of body-fat (BF), speed, agility and reaction-time (RT) were collected by using
standard tools and techniques. BF were obtained by using skinfold caliper, 50 meters dash
was used to test the speed of the subjects, agility was obtained by using 6×10 meters shutter
run, a software (Topend sports) was used to record reaction-time of the participants. After
collecting data, it was analyzed by using SPSS-23 (IBM, United States). The results of the
study documented that there is no significant relationship exists between percentage of bodyfat
with speed, agility and reaction-time of BKSP male football players. 

Keywords

BKSP, footballers, body-fat percentage, speed, agility, reaction-time

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