Effects of low intensity plyometric training combined with aerobic training on speed performance

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of low Intensity plyometric training combined with aerobic training on speed performance. To achieve the purpose of the study, thirty school level Kabaddi players in, in and around karaikudi were selected as subject at random and their age group range between 13 to 15 years. The study was formulated as pre and post test random group design, in which thirty players were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n=10, LI-PT) underwent low intensity plyometric training, experimentalgroup-2 (n=10, LI-PT-AT) underwent low intensity plyometric training combined with aerobic training and group 3 served as control group (n=10, CG) did not undergo any specific training. In this study, two training programme were adopted as independent variable, i.e., low intensity plyometric training, and low intensity plyometric training combined with aerobic training. The speed was selected as dependent variable, it was measured by 50 meters run and performance was recorded in seconds. The selected two treatment group's was performed low intensity plyometric training and low intensity plyometric training combined with aerobic training three days in a week for the period of eight weeks, as per the stipulated training program. The performance of speed was tested before and after the training period. The collected pre and post data was critically analyzed with apt statistical tool of analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), for observed the significant adjusted post-test mean difference of three groups. The Scheffe's post hoc test was used to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups. To test the hypothesis 0.05 level of significant was fixed in this study. The results proved that the selected training produced significant improvement on the performance of speed rather than the control group.