IMPACT OF VARIED INTENSITIES OF PLYOMETRIC TRAINING ON SELECTED SKILL PERFORMANCE OF MALE VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Keywords

Plyometric, Volleyball, Pass, Intensity.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of varied intensities of plyometric training on selected skill performance of male volleyball players. It was hypothesized that there would have been a significant effect of experimental groups on selected skill performance of male volleyball players than the control group.For the present study 30 volleyball players from Chennai, Tamilnadu were selected as subjects at random and their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. For the present study pre test – post test randomized group design which consists of control group and experimental group was used. The subjects were randomly assigned to three equal groups of fifteen each. Group I acted as low intensity plyometric training and group II acted as high intensity plyometric training and group III acted as control group. Skill performance variables namely overhead pass and fore hand pass were measured using brady volleyball skill test. The data was collected before and after twelve weeks of training. The data was analyzed by applying Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) technique and the level of significance was set at 0.05.The findings of the present study have strongly indicates that six weeks of experimental groups have significant effect on selected skill performance variables i.e., over head pass and fore hand pass of volleyball players. Significant effect of both low and high intensity plyometric training was found on over head pass and fore hand pass among volleyball players.