Comparative effect of vital capacity in different levels of table tennis players at khelo India

The present study seeks to investigate the specific effect of vital capacity on different levels (state, national and Indian) table tennis players. For the meaningful comparison, total thirty [N = 30] state level -10, national level- 10 and India level – 10 were randomly selected as a subject from khelo India tournament. Vital capacity was assess to check their lung efficiency by the help of spirometer the data were statistically analyzed by using one way ANOVA at 0.05 level of significance. After analyzing the data it was found that there were significant differences between the three groups of table tennis players. Further LSD post hoc test revealed that among the different levels of players chosen for this study, the national and Indian level players showed maximum vital capacity. This might be due to the fact as different training plan, strategy as well as more number of competitions faced by the national and Indian players as compared to state level players.