Effect of Progressive, Fluctuated and Regressive Resistance Training on Agility Performance among College Men Soccer Players

Dr. I. John Parthiban

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

Effect of Progressive, Fluctuated and Regressive Resistance Training on Agility Performance among College Men Soccer Players

Dr. I. John Parthiban

Abstract :

The aim of the study was designed to determine the effect of progressive, fluctuated and regressive resistance training on Agility performance among College Men Soccer players. To attain the purpose, sixty (N=60) College men Soccer players from various affiliated colleges of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India were randomly selected as subjects. The subjects were assigned at random into four groups of fifteen each (n=15). Group–I underwent Progressive Resistance Training, Group–II underwent Fluctuated Resistance Training, Group–III underwent Regressive Resistance Training and Group–IV acted as Control. The dependent variable selected for this study was Agility and it was assessed by Shuttle run test. All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the training for the selected variable. Data were collected and statistically analyzed using ANCOVA. Scheffe’s post hoc test was applied to determine the significant difference between the paired means. In all the cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference among all the Experimental groups’ namely progressive resistance training, fluctuated resistance training and regressive resistance training. Further the results, showed progressive resistance training was found to be better than the fluctuated resistance training and regressive resistance training in Agility.