Correlations of dominant handgrip strength with selected anthropometric and physiological characteristics in inter-university volleyball players

The purpose of the present study was to estimate the dominant handgrip strength and its correlations with selected anthropometric and physiological characteristics in inter-university volleyball players. Three anthropometric characteristics, four body composition parameters, two physical and two physiological characteristics were measured on randomly selected 63 inter-university volleyball players (38 males and 25 females) aged 18.25 years from six Indian universities, competition was held in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. An adequate number of controls (n = 102, 52 males and 50 females) were also taken from the same place for comparisons. In results, one way analysis of variance showed significant (p . .004 - .000) differences in all the variables between volleyball players and controls. In volley players, significantly positive correlations were found between right and left handgrip strength and all the variables studied except percent body fat (where the correlations were significantly negative). It may be concluded that dominant handgrip strength had some strong positive correlations with all the variables studied in inter-university volleyball players.