Effect of Different Plyometric Training on Biomechanical and Physiological Parameters of College Men Students

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to compare the effect of twelve weeks plyometric and aquatic plyometric training on some biomechanical variables including agility, leg strength and vo2 max in college men students. The study was ninety subjects were randomly selected from Alagappa Govt Arts College, Karaikudi, and Tamil Nadu. The subject’s age ranged between 18-25 years. They were randomly divided into three equal groups. Aquatic plyometric training group, plyometric training group were considered as two experimental groups and the other group was control group. Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) and scheffe’s post hoc tests were used to examine the significance between the variables for testing groups. The analysis was carried out using SPSS version in 20.0 and statistical significance was set to a priority at p ˂ 0.05. Plyometric training group and aquatic plyometric training group significantly improved agility, leg strength and vo2 max of the college students compared to control group. Aquatic plyometric training is better improvement of compared plyometric training group on agility and leg strength. There was no significant difference between aquatic plyometric training group and plyometric training group of vo2 max. It seems that plyometric training in water can be an effective technique to improve biomechanical variables in college students.

Author Name : C.Senthil Kumar1 & Dr.K.Balasubramanian2

Keywords: Plyometric, Agility, Leg Strength and Vo2 max.