Abstract :
The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of step-up and rope skipping exercise training on selected physical fitness variables on sport science students. The selected variables were flexibility, explosive power and agility. It was hypothesized that there was a significant difference between experimental groups and control group and it was also hypothesized that there were no significant difference between the experimental groups interms of flexibility, agility and explosive power. In order to achieve the purpose of this study the research was carried out 60 female students studying physical education at Adwa College of teacher’s education. The subjects were randomly allotted in to two experimental groups (rope skipping group and step up group) and control group. The rope skipping group and step up groups were involved in eight weeks of rope skipping and step up training respectively but the subjects of the control group were not participated in any of the training. The variables were assessed by: sit and reach test, standing long jump and zig-zag run test in order to measure flexibility, explosive power and agility respectively. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was computed separately for each variable. It was found that there was a significant improvement of rope skipping group and step up group on: flexibility. Rope skipping group showed significant improvement on explosive power and the step up group did not show significant improvement on explosive power, the rope skipping and step up group shows significant improvement on agility. Rope skipping and step up group showed no significant differences in flexibility and agility but there was a significance difference on explosive strength.
Author Name : Muez Tsegay
Keywords: Step up, Rope skipping, Flexibility, Agility, Explosive power.
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