Effect of Plyometric Training with and without Functional Training on Selected Physical Fitness Variables of Inter Collegiate Male Football Players
Author : Potu Raju Muddada, Dr. PK Kavitha Shri and Dr. S Saraboji
Abstract :
Football or Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world in terms of spectator sports and participation of players. It has the highest television audience in sport, making it the most popular in the world. Sports commonly called 'football' in certain places include: association football (known as soccer in some countries); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian Rules football; rugby football (either rugby league or rugby union) and Gaelic football. These different variations of football are known as football codes. Soccer, commonly known as football is played by more than 250 million players in over 200 countries around the globe. The purpose of the study was find out effect of plyometric training with and without functional training on selected physical fitness physiological and skill performance variables of inter collegiate male football players. To achieve the purpose of the study, the study was delimited to sixty male intercollegiate football players selected randomly from Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. The age of the subjects were from 18 to 25 years from the academic year 2023-2024. The selected subjects were divided randomly into three groups each group consist of 30 subjects Group I-Core Strength training group (n=30), Group II-Weight training group (n=30) and Group III-Control group (n=30). 4. The study was restricted to elected Physical fitness variables namely Speed. The training period was 14 weeks 3 alternate days per week, one and a half-hour in the evening session. For the pre and post-test randomized control group design was followed for this study. The collected data were statistically analyzed to check whether any significant difference exists. This will be done by applying the dependent ‘t’ test, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and Scheffe’s post hoc test. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level. It was found that there was a significant improvement and significant different exist due to the effect of plyometric training and with and without functional training on speed.
Keywords :
Plyometric training and functional training and speed
