IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

Dr. M. Gopinath

Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

ISOLATED AND COMBINED EFFECT OF AEROBIC AND CIRCUIT TRAINING ON LEG EXPLOSIVE POWER AMONG ENGINEERING COLLEGE PLAYERS

Dr. M. Gopinath

Abstract :

The present study was designed to find out theisolated and combined effect of aerobic and circuit training on leg Explosive Power among Engineering College Players.To attain the purpose, Sixty (N=60) players who have participated in the Anna University inter collegiate tournaments during 2016–2017 were selected randomly as subjects. The subjects were assigned at random into four groups of fifteen each (n=15). Group–I underwent Aerobic Training, Group–II underwent Circuit Training, Group–III underwent Combined Aerobic Training and Circuit Training, Group–IV acted as Control. The duration of the training period for all the three Experimental groupswas restricted to twelve weeks and the number of sessions per week was confined to three in a week. For Combined Aerobic Training and Circuit Trainingthe training period was restricted to alternative weeks for twelve weeks.Leg Explosive Power was selected as dependent variable and it was assessed by Sargent Jump test.All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the training for all the selected variables. Data were collected and statistically analyzed using ANCOVA. Scheffe’s post hoc test was applied to determine the significant difference between the paired means. In all the cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference was found among all the Experimental groups namelyAerobic Training, Circuit Training andCombined Aerobic Training and Circuit Traininggroups had significantly increase in the Leg Explosive Power. Further the results of the study showed that Combined Aerobic Training and Circuit Training group was found to be better than the Aerobic traininggroup and Circuit Training group in Leg Explosive Power.