The aim of the current study was to obtain cardiopulmonary changes of male kho kho players and to monitor any changes at designated points within the periodized training year. The subjects employed in the present study were twelve male kho kho players. Testing took place at four points during the periodized training year; at the beginnings of general preparation (T1), specific preparation (T2), and competition phase beginning (T3) end of competition phases of training and peaking (T4). The cardiopulmonary variables selected for the investigation are resting heart rate, peak heart rate, aerobic capacity, forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1). The repeated measures of analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated significant differences between testing sessions for resting heart rate, peak heart rate and VO2 max. Post-hoc analysis revealed that the significant differences for resting heart rate and peak heart rate.
