Volume : IV, Issue : II, February - 2015

Eight Week Sand Based Speed Workout Applied Among Football Players

T. Vinoth, Dr. A. S. Nageswaran

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The purpose of the present study was to find out the effect of sand based speed training applied among football players on sprinting speed, acceleration, strength, explosive power and fatigue index. To achieve the purpose of the study, 24 young football players were selected from Govt Hr Sec School, Thuvarankkurichy, Trichy District, Tamil Nadu at randomly. The selected subjects were divided into two equal groups. Group I underwent sprint training on sand surface for three days per week over a period of eight weeks and Group II acted as control group and no training was given to CG during the course of experiment. Sprint speed (50 mts dash), Acceleration (30 m run test), power (Sargent Jump test), Fatigue Index (RAST Test) was selected as dependent variables. The pre test and post test randomized control group design was used as experimental design. Pre test data was collected before the training programme and post-test was collected immediately after the training session and the entire test were conducted on the firm ground surface. The collected data from the two groups prior to and immediately after the training programme on selected criterion variables will be statistically analyzed with paired samples‘t’ test to find out the significant improvement between pre and post- test means of both groups and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference among experimental and control groups. In all the cases 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the hypothesis. The result of the study reveals that there was significant improvement on selected dependent variables due to the effect of training and there was a significant difference between experimental and control groups of football players.

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T.Vinoth,Dr.A.S.Nageswaran Eight Week Sand Based Speed Workout Applied Among Football Players International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 2 February 2015

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