Effect of individual and combined training of kalaripayattu and karate on flexibility and cardio vascular endurance among polytechnic college students

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of individual and combined training of kalaripayattu and karate on flexibility and cardio vascular endurance among polytechnic college students. To achieve the purpose of this study, one twenty polytechnic college student was selected from Govt. polytechnic college, Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu. The subject's age ranged from 15 to 20 years and they were divided into four equal groups namely kalaripayattu training group, karate training group, combined training group and control group. The investigator selected flexibility and cardio vascular endurance dependent variable kalaripayattu training group, karate training group, and combined training group underwent respective training for the period of twelve weeks. Control group was not participating in any type of training. The data were collected before and after the training program and statistically analyzed by using analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA). The result of the study reveals that kalaripayattu training group, karate training group, and combined training group were significantly improved on flexibility and cardio vascular endurance variable than the control group, karate training group was better than the kalaripayattu training group and also combined training group is better than the kalaripayattu training group on flexibility and cardio vascular endurance