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Aim: To compare on selected health related physical fitness variables before and during menstrual cycle. Introduction: Physical education an integral part of the total education process, is a field of endeavor that has its aim the improvement of human performance through the medium of physical activities that have been selected with a view to realizing this outcome. Health related physical fitness having exercises that help to improve physical health, which involve cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength and flexibility. Sports and menstruation are another important aspect as far as women fitness and health is concerned. Initially in the early years it would depend only upon the information derived from the girl�s mother and friends but later on one finds that it is basically the attitude that deals with problem of menstruation. A woman who would like to continue with her fitness regime shall carry on the programmed no matter what, the inconveniences and pains caused due to menstruation shall become a secondary factor. Every woman has her own pain threshold, at which point she decides whether she will continue with her training or not. Purpose of the study: To find out the comparative on selected health related physical fitness variables before and during menstrual cycle. Procedure: for the present study 20 women of LNIPE (B.P.Ed. 1st year), Gwalior (M.P.) were selected randomly as the subjects for the study. The variables selected for the presented study were cardio respiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance and muscular strength. The data was collected through the pre-test and post-test. For the study, pre-test data was taken one week before the menstrual cycle and post-test data was taken during the 2nd day of menstrual cycle. Statistical technique: for comparing pre-test and post-test (cardio respiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance and muscular strength), descriptive analysis and paired �t� test were applied at the 0.05 level of significance. Result/Conclusion: the result of the study indicated that there was no significance difference among pre-test and post-test of cardio respiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance and muscular strength as the �p� value were 0.332, 0.920, 0.208, 0.885 and 0.615 which is more than 0.05.