Effect of visual exercise protocol on some visual abilities and level of related skill performance in young handball players

Every sport requires some visual skills that are critical elements to most sports performance. A considerable debate has been taken place for the concerned role of vision in sports performance, but it is the training of those specific skills that influence to strengthen specific visual abilities resulting in actually improved performance. The aim of present study was aimed to identify the influence of visual exercise protocol on select visual abilities and related skill performances among young handball players. Participants of this research were the students of physical education of Annamalai University. The sample consisted of 24 young handball players under 25 age (22.14 ± 1.99 years old; 174.69 ± 4.66 cm height; and 64.84 ± 5.07 kg weight). The selected participants in this visual exercise protocol courses for 8 weeks (5 days per week) and control group continued their daily routine activities during the exercise. Student's t-test for independent samples was used to determine the differences in vision parameters between the two groups. The p<0.05 was considered as statistically significant. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental Group and control group in the post-test of the skill variables. The visual exercises protocol increases motor skills, visual perceptual skills and reading skills in young handball players and it also showed that the control group was weaker than the experimental group.