Effects of Combination of Basketball Specific Fitness and Strength Training on Speed of College Male Basketball Players

Author Name(s):

Dr.N.Siva Sankar

Abstract

             The analysis of the research paper is to evaluate the effects of combination of basketball specific fitness and strength training on speed of male basketball players. The eighty collegiate basketball players are selected from Kovai Kalaimagal Educational Institutions and they were equally allotted in four groups. Group –I Basketball Specific Fitness Training Group (BSFTG) (n=20), Group –II, Strength Training Group (STG) (n=20), Group –III Combination of Basketball Specific Fitness and Strength Training Group (CBSFSTG) (n=20) and Group-IV act as a Control Group (n=20). The intention was to evaluate the speed in 50 meter Dash test, as measured  before and after a twelve week training period. The subjects in each training groups were trained 4 days per week, whereas control group subjects did not participate in any training activity. The data were analyzed by‘t ‘ratio, analysis of variance, analysis of co-variance, and Scheffe’s post hoc test. The results showed that all the training treatments elicited significant (P<0.05) improvement in all of the tested variables of speed. However, the combination of basketball specific and strength training significantly improved speed.

 Keywords: BSFTG- Basketball Specific Fitness Training Group, STG-Strength Training Group, CBSFSTG- Combination of Basketball Specific Fitness and Strength Training Group, Speed.

Please cite this article as: Dr.N.Siva Sankar (2018). Effects of Combination of Basketball Specific Fitness and Strength Training on Speed of College Male Basketball Players. International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 5, 8(4), 15-19.