Influences of ladder training on selected motor fitness components among university male students

The purpose of the study was find out the influences of ladder training on selected motor fitness components among university male students. To achieve the purpose of this study, 30 male university students are randomly selected as subjects from the Tamilnadu Physical Education and Sports University Chennai Tamilnadu, India. Their age ranged from 18 to 25years. Selected motor fitness components variables such as agility and speed. The selected participants were randomly divided into two groups such as Group ‘A’ Ladder training (n=15) and Group ‘B’ acted as control group (n=15). Group ‘A’ underwent ladder training for three days per week and each session lasted for an hour for four week. Control group was not exposed to any specific training. The data on agility and speed were collected by administering by standardized test item. The pre and post tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior and immediately after the training program. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) for selected variable. It was concluded that the Ladder training group had shown significantly improved in agility and speed. However the control group had not shown any significant improvement on any of the selected variable such as agility and speed.