Effects of own body exercises combined with neuromuscular drills on explosive power-horizontal ability

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of own body exercises combined with neuromuscular drills on explosive power-horizontal ability. To achieve the purpose of the study thirty school boys with the age group of 12–14 years were from Alagappa Fitness Foundation, Karaikudi, TamilNadu were selected as subjects at random. The study was formulated as pre and post-test random group design, in which thirty subjects were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n=10, OBE-JRD) underwent own body exercises combined with jump rope drills. The experimental group-2 (n=10, OBE-LD) underwent own body exercises combined with ladder drills and group 3 served as control group (n=10, CG). The experimental groups have performed their respective training program for six weeks, five days per week. The ability of explosive power was tested by standing broad jump, scores recorded meters. The collected pre and post data was critically analysed with apt statistical tool of analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA), for observed the significant adjusted post-test mean difference of three groups. The Scheffe's post hoc test was used to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups. To test the hypothesis 0.05 level of significant was fixed in this study. The result clearly proved that there was a significant improvement on explosive power-horizontal ability in experimental groups than the control group. Both experimental groups produced similar effect on explosive power-horizontal ability.