Respiratory Muscles Adequate Physical Fitness

INTRODUCTION: Athletes are trained for specific games and for specific muscle groups. In all the games respiratory muscles with proper strength are needed so as to provide better outcome. But as the peripheral muscles are trained the Respiratory muscles are not trained specifically in any of the athlete. The less trained Respiratory muscles can directly affect the output of the Athlete by activating Metaboreflex. This reflex is activated when the Respiratory muscles gets fatigued; in which the blood is pulled towards the fatigued Respiratory muscles; due to which the peripheral muscle gets less blood and oxygen to work longer; which results in reduced output. So as to improve overall output, along with specific muscles, the Respiratory muscles

According to the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (USDHHS); Physical fitness is defined as “a set of attributes that people have or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity. The attributes of Physical activities are Health Related like: Cardio Pulmonary Endurance, Muscular Endurance, Muscular Strength, Flexibility and Body Composition. The Cardio Pulmonary Endurance plays a very major role for improving physical fitness in Healthy Individuals and Athletes. Respiratory muscle fitness may affect exercise performance in healthy individuals. Isolated respiratory muscle training increases respiratory muscle endurance and endurance time in response to whole body exercise1. The respiratory muscle training has been used to improve respiratory muscle function in healthy subjects and in patients2. Research has shown that the work done by these muscles is very substantial, so their training status has profound influence upon exercise performance3. In athletes, respiratory muscle work has an impact on whole body exercise performance by affecting limb blood flow and muscle fatigue during heavy exercise 4, 5. The Diaphragm fatigue can occur during sustained high intensity exercises 6, 7. Several studies have shown that unloading respiratory muscles can lead to increase in exercise performance 8, 9. One mechanism to explain these

After completion of 6 weeks training program the post training outcome measures were taken. The Pimax and Pemax were assessed by the machine designed for testing it. And the Running Perfomance was taken by assessing the time taken to completing the 30m sprint.

Statistical analysis:
Level of significance was kept at 5% .Within group analysis was done using Wilcoxon test and between group analysis was done using Mann Whitney U test.
Results:
Sixty athletes who fulfilled all the inclusion criteria were divided into two groups, thirty in control group and thirty in experimental group. There no drop outs in experimental group as well as in control group as the athletes were dedicated to the study moreover all were living in the hostel provided by their college. Study was completed with 60 athletes with 30 athletes in each group.
Table 1 shows the MEAN and SD of pre and post data of both the groups.Table 2 show differences in TIME, PIMAX and PEMAX for within group analysis of both the groups. Table 3 show significant difference between groups for TIME, PIMAX and PEMAX (p0.05
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