EFFECT OF TRADITIONAL STRENGTH TRAINING AND FUNCTIONAL STRENGTH TRAINING EXERCISES ON ARM STRENGTH OF COLLEGE MALE POLEVAULTERS

D.Baskar; Dr.K. Murali Rajan

Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

EFFECT OF TRADITIONAL STRENGTH TRAINING AND FUNCTIONAL STRENGTH TRAINING EXERCISES ON ARM STRENGTH OF COLLEGE MALE POLEVAULTERS

D. Baskar, Dr. K. Murali Rajan

Abstract :

The purpose of the study was to realize the effect of selectedtraditional strength training and functional strength training exercises on the improvement of arm strength among college menPolevaulters. To work on the purpose 45 Polevaulters who were the students of colleges under the University of Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu, were taken as the subjects. The selected group of subjects was divided into threegroups viz. traditional strength traininggroup, functional strength training group and control group. Thetraditional strength training and functional strength training schedule which was administered on experimental groups only, selected traditional strength training and functional strength training exercises were given. This traditional strength training and functional strength training programme exercises were carried out for aperiod of 12 weeks for one hour every evening, excluding Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday for each experimental group. Control group was no treatment group and were engaged in their own daily activity programme. As delimited tomeasure the arm strength pull–upstests were used. For the administration and scoring of these tests item procedure mentioned in AAPHER, youthfitness test (1958) was taken as the model. It was realized from the results of the study that there was significanteffect of the functional strength training exercise than traditional strength training on the arm strength of the selected polevaulters.