International Journal of Physical Education Sports Management and Yogic Sciences

The aim of the present study was to find out the effects of metabolic based sport specific training combined with asana practices and pilates exercises on speed of adolescent hockey players. To achieve the purpose of the study sixty adolescent hockey players were selected at random from Davangere, Karnataka and their age was between thirteen to fifteen years. The selected subjects were assigned to, three experimental group and a control group. The experimental group-1 (n=15, MBSST) meant for metabolic based sport specific training, the experimental group-2 (n=15, MBSST+AP) meant for metabolic based sport specific training combined with asana practices, experimental group-3 (n=15, MBSST+PE) meant for metabolic based sport specific training combined with pilates exercises and the group-4 (n=15, CG) acted as a control group, who did not participate any specific training. The performance of speed was selected as dependent variable; it was tested by 50 meters run and scores recorded in seconds. The training period was three alternative days in a week for the period of 12 weeks. The pre and post test random design was adopted. The obtained pre test and post test data was significantly interpreted with appropriate statistical tool of Paired sample t-test, it has been used for finding significant pre test to post test mean difference in each group with respect to each parameters and analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) was used to observe the significant adjusted post-test mean difference. The Scheffe's post hoc test was applied to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups. The hypothesis was tested with 0.05 level of confidence. The result of the study indicates that there was significant improvement on speed owing to the experimental groups.