Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to determinate the effect of agility ladder training on selected fitness parameters among football players. The selected variables are agility, balance and speed. For this study, twenty four men football players in the age group of 21 to 28 years were selected from Dr. Sivanthi Aditanar College of Engineering, Tiruchendur and Dr. Sivanthi Aditanar College of Physical Education, Tiruchendur were randomly selected as participants. The subjects selected for this study were randomly divided into two groups namely experimental group and control group. The experimental group was given agility ladder exercises in respective of three alternative days in a week for 6 weeks duration in addition to the regular physical education activities of the department as per the curriculum. But the control group was not allowed to participate in the agility ladder training program but perform their regular exercise program. The collected data were statistically analyzed with dependent “t” test to find out the significant improvement between pre and post-test means of experimental and control groups and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference between the experimental and control groups. In all the cases to test the significance, 0.05 level of confidence was used.
Author Name : E. Jenefa Samuel & Dr. (Mrs.) R. Thanalakshmi
Keywords: Agility, Ladder Training, Fitness, Football.
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