Effects of Plyometric Training and Resistance Trainng on Agility of Tennis Players

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of Plyometric Training and Resistance Training on Agility of Tennis Players. For the purpose of the study 60 male Tennis players of Gwalior, who had participated in various tournaments in Tennis at the national, intervarsity, or state level were selected. Their age ranged from 18–23 years. Agility was selected as a dependent variable and plyometric training and resistance Training was considered as Independent Variables. For the study pre test-post test randomized group design comprising of two experimental groups (n=20 in each group) namely plyometric training group (PT) and resistance training group (RT) and one active control group (n=20) were adopted. To test the Agility of Tennis players, Illinois Agility Test was used. To compare the effects of plyometric training and resistance training on agility of Tennis players, Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) was used. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The result reveals that there was significant effect of the plyometric training programme on agility of Tennis players but no significant effect was found by resistance training programme. Based on the findings and within the limitation of the study it was noticed that plyometric training help to improve agility of Tennis players since the agility performance of the subjects of experimental groups were found statistically significant.