Effects of Short Term and Regular Resistance Training in the Development of Flexibility, Leg Explosive Power and Dribbling of the Male Basketball Players

Abstract :

To achieve the purpose of the study sixty intercollegiate male basketball players were selected from St.Claret College Jalahalli, Bangalore. The subjects age was ranged from 18-23 years. There were divided in to three equal groups in each 20 players. The first group underwent the (short term training and skill training group) N-20, the second group underwent the(regular resistance training and skill training group) N-20, the third group acted as a control group (N-20) and they did not perform any specific Training. The subjects were assessed by the flexibility (sit and reach test), leg explosive power (vertical jump test) and dribbling ability (Knox basketball test).conducted before and after the 12 weeks of training the regimen. Analysis of variance was used to analyse the data. The result showed that all the training treatments elicited significant improvement in all variables. The short term and skill training group showed significantly greater improvement in all the variables then the other two groups of short term and skill training group and the control group.

Author Name : Muniraju. M. G & Dr. S.Suthakar

Keywords: Flexibility, Leg explosive power, Dribbling ability, regular resistance training, short term training, Skill training.