EFFECT OF SPECIFIC DRILLS WITH PLYOMETRIC TRAINING ON SELECTED SKILL PERFORMANCE VARIABLES OF SCHOOL LEVEL MEN HANDBALL PLAYERS

N.EZHILMARAN

Volume : VI, Issue : VII, July - 2016

EFFECT OF SPECIFIC DRILLS WITH PLYOMETRIC TRAINING ON SELECTED SKILL PERFORMANCE VARIABLES OF SCHOOL LEVEL MEN HANDBALL PLAYERS

N. Ezhilmaran

Abstract :

 The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of specific drills with plyometric training on selected skills performance variables of school level men handball players. For this purpose, forty men players were selected from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya Swami Sivananda Higher Secondary school Coimbatore. The age group of the subjects ranged from 13 to 17 years. They were selected by random sampling method and divided into 2 groups namely Group –A Experimental group and Group B control group and each group consisting of 20 subjects. The experimental group underwent specific drills with plyometric Training for a period of twelve weeks and was tested before and after the training programme. The selected criterion variables are selected dribbling and passing. The dribbling skill tested with 6 mtr speed dribble test and passing skill tested with speed pass test standardized tests were used. The collected data were treated with by using dependent ‘t’ test. The level of significant was fixed at 0.05. The results showed that the experimental group showed improvement in selected skill performance variables were dribbling and passing due to effect of specific drills with plyometric training. The control group did not improve the selected the criterion variables.