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The purpose of the study was designed to examine the impact of total resistance exercise on selected physical fitness components such as shoulder strength and strength endurance among school girls. The study was randomly selected 30 (thirty) girls from Hollotoli School, Dimapur, Nagaland and their age groups were from 16 to 18 years old. The subjects were divided into two equal groups and consisting 15 students in each. The groups were name as experimental group and control group. Total resistance exercise was assigned with experimental group for 12 weeks, one hour a day and thrice in a week and control group does not undergo for any specific training. Pull up and flexed leg sit-ups were employed as tool for shoulder strength and strength endurance respectively in the study. The test was implemented as pre and post-test for both groups to find out the significance of Total Resistance Exercise on physical fitness components. The statistical technique, ANCOVA was applied for finding the result and the 0.05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance for the study. The result of the study showed that there was a significant difference between experimental group and control group on shoulder strength and strength endurance.