FOOTBALL SHOOTING PERFORMANCE CHANGES DURING DIFFERENT MODES OF RESPIRATORY PRACTICES AMONG PROFESSIONAL COLLEGE PLAYERS

Keywords

Hypoxic Training, Pranayama Practices, Shooting

Abstract

Aim of the study was to find out Football shooting performance changes during different modes of respiratory practices among Professional college men players. The study was conducted on forty five (N=45) men students studying various colleges affiliated to Anna University, Tamilnadu, India, during the year 2014-2015 were selected as subjects at random and they were divided randomly into two experimental groups and on control group of fifteen each, namely Group-I Hypoxic Training, Group-II Pranayama Practice and Group-III acted as Control. The training period was limited to twelve weeks and for three days per week. The experimental groups underwent their respective experimental treatment for 8 weeks. Football shooting skill only selected as dependent variables. Football shooting skill was assessed by Mor- Christian General Soccer Ability Test. All the subjects were tested prior to and after the training for all the selected variables. The data collected from the three groups prior to and post experimentation was statistically analyzed by using Analysis of Covariance (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 result reveals significant differences in Football shooting skill among the experimental groups.