Cardiorespiratory fitness is one of the most important components in futsal sports covering physical fitness, muscle endurance, and being a measure for an athlete. There is a lack and limited study about the effect of small sided games on VO2max performance among male futsal players. The main purpose of this study was to measure the difference in VO2max, lactate threshold and muscle endurance levels after 4 weeks of high intensity small sided games training. Fourteen male futsal players were purposely selected to involved in this study, selected to tournament (n=7), non-selected for first team (n=7). Both groups of players were assigned to do high intensity small sided games of futsal for 4 weeks. The data were collected twice, prior to intervention (pre-test) and after completion of the intervention (post-test). The results of the study found that there was a difference between the two groups as well as between the pre and post-test. In pre-test, group 1 showed 12.48% (p=0.1.....

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