Effect of Football Training Programme on Selected Physical Fitness Parameters of School Boys

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of football training programme on selected physical fitness parameters of school boys. For this purpose Forty (N=40) Football players from Sivagangai District were selected as subjects during the academic year 2014–2015. They were randomly divided into two groups of twenty each, group–I underwent Football training, and group–II acted as Control. The football skill training was given for twelve four weeks duration. The dependent variables selected for this study was speed and explosive power.The physical fitness parameters such as Speed was assessed though 50 meters run test and explosive power was assessed through standing oad jump test. The data obtained from the experimental group and control group before and after the experimental period were statistically analyzed with Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Since two groups were involved, no post hoc test was applied.The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 level for all the cases. Speed and explosive power showed significant difference between the experimental and Control groups, further the results suggested that football skill training weresignificantly developed speed and explosive power.

Speed and Explosive power.