RELATIVE EFFECTS OF STRENGTH TRAINING ON SELECTED PHYSICAL FITNESS VARIABLES OF MEN VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Keywords

Strength Training, speed and Muscular Endurance

Abstract

To achieve this purpose thirty subjects from Department of physical education, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University Chennai. The subject’s age ranged between 21 to 24 years. The subjects divided into two groups. Group-1 strength training (STG) and control group (CG). The training group strength training practices involved and control group did not engage any activity apart from regular routine work. The training periods consists of twelve weeks, evening 4.30 pm to 5.30 pm. The selected criterion variables are speed was measured by 50 m dash and muscular endurance was tested with timed sit ups. Before and after training periods the collected data were treated with dependent ‘t’ test. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05. The results of the experimental group shows that significantly increased the selected criterion variables speed and muscular endurance was due to the relative effects of strength training. Control group did not show any changes in selected criterion variables.