Relative effect of massage manipulations and plyometric training longjump performance mother theresa women university athletics.

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of plyometric training and massage on long jump performances. To achieve this purpose of the study, thirty male students from the Mother Theresa Women University were randomly selected as subjects and they were divided into three equal groups. Each group consisted of the ten subjects. Group-I underwent plyometric training, group-II underwent massage for three days per week for thirteen weeks and group-III acted as control who were not participate any special training apart from the regular curricular activities. The subjects were tested on long jump performance at prior to and immediately after the training period. The selected criterion variable such as long jump performance was measured by using running long jump. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) used to find out the significant difference if any, between groups on each selected criterion variables separately. In all the cases,.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as an appropriate.