INFLUENCE OF INTERVAL TRAINING AND STAIRCASE TRAINING ON SPEED

Keywords

Interval training, Staircase training, speed, ANCOVA

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out Influence of interval training and staircase training on speed. To achieve this purpose of the study to forty five hockey players of M.S.University affiliated colleges players, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. The selected subjects were aged between 18 to 21 years. They were divided into three equal groups of fifteen each, Group I underwent Interval training, Group II underwent Staircase training and Group III acted as control that did not participate in any special training apart from their regular curricular activities. The subjects were tested on selected criterion variable such as speed prior to any immediately after the training period. The selected criterion variable such as speed was measuring by 50 mts run test. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant differences if any, between the experimental group and control group on selected criterion variable. In all the cases, 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as an appropriate. The result of the present study has revealed that there was a significant difference among the experimental and control group on speed.