Effect of Battle Rope and Jump Rope Training Combined with Ladder Drills on Body Composition in College Men Students

This study aimed to investigate the effect of battle rope and jump rope training combined with ladder drills on body composition in college men students.

The experimental study enrolled 45 college men students from Kumaraguru Institute of Agriculture, Erode, Tamil Nadu, who were selected to carry out the research. The subjects who met the inclusion criteria were selected using convenience sampling and randomly divided into two intervention groups and a control group. The body composition chosen a dependent variable and it’s observed through BMI by the participants before the training intervention. The stipulated training was provided to the participants for the period of 50-minute sessions for the three alternative days in a week.

To process the results of the study, analysis of the data was done with the IBM SPSS Statistics 22 software. The statistics obtained were provided by paired sample t-test. The improvement percentage was assessed by using the formula of “%Δ = (x post-test – x pre-test) / pre-test * 100.”. The level of confidence was fixed at 95%, and values below p<0.05 were considered significant.

The paired sample t-test showed a significant (p<0.05) improvement in selected dependent variables over the 12 weeks of stipulated training.

The results indicate considerable significant improvement on variables was observed. The findings indicate that both the training regimes led to significant improvement on the Body composition namely body mass index through BMI formula. The jump rope training combined with ladder drills has produced a superior effect compared to the battle rope training combined with ladder drills.