IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

Y.SRINIVASULU; Dr.E.AMUDHAN

Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

COMBINED EFFECT OF PLYOMETRIC OWN BODY RESISTANCE AND MEDICINE BALL TRAINING ON SELECTED PHYSIOLOGICAL VARIABLES OF SCHOOL LEVEL VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Y. Srinivasulu, Dr. E. Amudhan

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to find out the combined effect of plyometric, own body resistance and medicine ball training on the selected physiological variables of school level volleyball players. The investigator selected forty eight (N=48) male volleyball players who represented for their schools from Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidhyalaya Swami Shivananda Higher Secondary School (English and Tamil medium), TAT Kalanilayam middle school, GKD Matriculation Higher Secondary Schools Periyanaicken palayam Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, were selected as subjects and their ages were ranged from 13 to 15 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups of twenty four each. Group –I acted as experimental group (Plyometric, Own body resistance and Medicine ball trainings (POBRMBT). Group –II acted as Control Group (CG). Experimental Group was given 12 weeks (Duration – 12 weeks, Session – 3 day/week, Duration of one session – One hour) of plyometric own body resistance and medicine ball training and control group was not given any specific training. The dependent variables namely forced vital capacity (FVC) and peak expiratory flow (PEF) were selected and measured by digital Spiro meter for this study. The data was analysed by the use of paired‘t’ test. The obtained ‘t’ ratio was tested for significance at 0.05 level of confidence. The analysis of the data revealed that there was a significant improvement on the selected criterion variables namely forced vital capacity (FVC) and peak expiratory flow (PEF) by the application of plyometric, own body resistance and medicine ball training (POBRMBT).