Effect of Intensive and Extensive Circuit Weight Training and Detraining on Selected Muscle Endurance of Physical Education Students

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of different intensity circuit weight training and detraining on selected muscle endurance. To achieve the purpose of the study, 45 male students from the department of physical education and sports sciences, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India were selected at random as subjects, in the age group of 18 to 20 years. The chosen subjects were randomly assigned into three groups of 15 each. Group-I acted as control, group-II followed intensive circuit weight training and group-III subjects underwent extensive circuit weight training. All the subjects had a similar academic work and regular activities in accordance with the requirements of the college curriculum. The subjects in the control group were not engaged in any activity other than the regular curriculum during the training period the present study reveal that both experimental groups have significantly increased the muscular endurance as compared to control group. Further, the improvement of muscular endurance is significantly higher for extensive circuit weight training group than intensive circuit weight training group. It is observed in the present study that during detraining period, the gradual decline of muscular endurance for extensive circuit weight training group is similar to intensive circuit weight training group up to 40 days.

Author Name : Dr. W. Vinu

Keywords: Circuit Training, Physical Education Students, Muscular Endurance.