Impact of various plyometric training with selcted asana practices on explosive strength, agility and balance of male footballers

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of unilateral, bilateral plyometric training with yogasana practices on selected physical variables explosive strength, agility and balance of engineering college football players. To achieve the purpose of the study forty (N=40) male football players from various engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh were randomly selected. The age group of the subject was 18 to 22 years. Selected subjects were equally divided into two groups namely control and experimental group. Control group was not given any type of training. Experimental group was given unilateral, bilateral plyometric training with yogasana for a period of six weeks. The pre test and post test data on explosive strength, agility and balance was collected on both the groups before and after the experimental training. Collected data was analysed by using ANCOVA to find significant difference among mean at 0.05 level of confidence. It was concluded that experimental training unilateral, bilateral plyometric training combined with yogasana significantly improved the explosive strength, agility and balance of the engineering college football players.