Effect of Medicine Ball Training and Swiss Ball Training on Selected Upper and Lower Body Strength Endurance Parameters among College Men Students

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of medicine ball training and swiss ball training on
selected upper and lower body strength endurance parameters among college men students. To achieve the purpose of the study (N=45) forty five college men students were selected from YMCA College of Physical Education, during the year 2016-17. The subject‟s age ranges from 18 to 25 years. The selected players were divided into two equal groups consists of 15 men students each namely experimental group and control group. The experimental group –I underwent medicine ball training and experimental group –II underwent swiss ball training for nine weeks. The control group was not taking part in any exercise during the course of the study. The dependent variables lower and upper body strength was taken as criterion variables and they were tested by using push-ups test and squat test for this study .Pre-test was taken before the exercise period and post- test was measured immediately after the nine weeks of training period. Statistical technique paired sample„T‟ ratio was used to analyze the means of the pre-test and post test data of experimental groups and control group. The data were analyzed paired sample “T‟ test technique was used with 0.05 levels as confidence. Analysis was performed using SPSS 20.0 (SPSS Inc Software). The results revealed that there was a significant difference found on the criterion variables. The difference found is due to medicine ball training and swiss ball training groups when compare better than the control group on upper and lower body strength endurance.

Author Name : K.Veeramani & Dr.K.Vaithianathan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.579703

Keywords: Medicine ball training, Swiss ball training, Upper and Lower body strength endurance.