IOSR Journal of Sports and Physical Education (IOSR-JSPE) e-ISSN: 2347-6737, p-ISSN: 2347-6745, Volume 2, Issue 1 (Jan - Feb. 2015), PP 33-37 www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/6737-0213337 www.iosrjournals.org 33 | Page A study on body composition of children participating in regular football, cricket and gymnastic training *Dr. Madhab Chandra Ghosh** Dr. Saikot Chatterjee***Mr.Pikai Ghosh****Miss Susmita Dey*****Dr.Sukhendu Das******Dr. Bhaskar Chakraborty. *Assoc Prof. Dept of Physical Education University of Kalyani, ** Asst. Prof. Dept of Physical Education University of Kalyani, ***Student Dept of Physical Education University of Kalyani, ****Research Scholar Dept of Physical Education University of Kalyani, *****Asst. Teacher Bansberia High School, ******Asst. Teacher Seoraphuli Surendranath High School, West Bengal, India. Abstract: Physical education and sports have emerged as scientific discipline very recently and the vast areas in these fields are untouched, virgin and unexplored. In this newly developed area of scientific discipline Body composition the term used to describe the different components that, when taken together, make up a person's body weight composed of a variety of different tissue types including lean tissues (muscle, bone, and organs) that are metabolically active, and fat (adipose) tissue that is not a crucial variables, are greatly influenced by sport performance at the same time have wide range of impact on health and wellness of and individual require amicable studies to be worked upon. The recent works done in this area have provided that there is a relationship between body composition and sports. Moreover body composition is an important determinant for health and wellness of an individual. The scholar being a sport person as well as a professional in the field of physical education and sport with the view of bridging a gap between participation in sporting activities and their impact on body composition and anthropometric components premeditated to carry out the study with the title “A study on body composition of children participating in regul ar football, cricket and gymnastic training”. The chief purpose of the study was to compare the anthropometric and body composition status of children participating in football, cricket and gymnastic training camps. Based on data analysis the scholar arrived at the conclusion that Footballers have significantly lower BF% and Fat Mass than those of the gymnasts but they doesn’t have significant difference on lean mass. Footballers have significantly lower BF% and Fat Mass than those of the cricketers moreover they have significantly higher lean mass than the trainee cricketers. Gymnasts have significantly lower BF% and Fat Mass than those of the cricketers but they don’t bear any significant difference on lean mass. Key words: Body Composition, football, cricket, gymnastic. I. Introduction Physical education and sports have emerged as scientific discipline very recently and the vast areas in these fields are untouched, virgin and unexplored. Extremely significant work has been done in other discipline but comparatively too little seems to have been done in physical education and sport. For instance, generalizations from the field of psychology have been extensively used in building up theories of education on such issues as learning, development, motivation, bevaiour etc. But the principles of psychology have yet to be properly made use of in studying the bevaviour of sports men as a type and as a class. The physical educationists’ under takes historical research in order to study the past practices and their relationship with the present ones. Physical fitness, competitive sports and health instructions are some of the areas which being gradually developed on a sound scientific footing. Similarly research is being very vigorously pursued, in such areas, as motor learning, psychology of competition, motivation, personality structure of sports men etc. by using human being as subjects. Research in physical education and sports also encompasses management of class teaching, curricula formulation, skill learning programmes, philosophy of physical education, and sociology of sportsmen, bio mechanics, sports medicine and myriads of other fields relating to the human movement. Physical education and sports have emerged as scientific discipline very recently and the vast areas in these fields are untouched, virgin and unexplored. In this newly developed area of scientific discipline Body composition the term used to describe the different components that, when taken together, make up a person's body weight composed of a variety of different tissue types including lean tissues (muscle, bone, and organs) that are metabolically active, and fat (adipose) tissue that is not are crucial variables which are greatly