Abstract :
The purpose of the study sixty male basketball players of inter collegiate level were selected from St. Claret College Jalahalli, Bangalore. The subject’s age ranged from 18-23 years. There were divided into three equal groups in each 20 players. The first group underwent (short term resistance training and skill training group) N-20, the second group underwent (regular resistance training and skill training group) N-20, the third group act as control group (N-20) and they did not perform any specific training. The collection of data was done prior to and after the completion. The subjects were tested on selected physical fitness and skill performance variables namely muscular strength endurance (sit-ups test), Upper body test (1RM test) and passing ability (Johnson basketball Test) conducted before and after the 12 weeks of training 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 greater improvement in all the variables then the other two groups of regular resistance and skill training group and the control group. The resistance training about effects of high intensity and volume resistance exercise results in muscle harm caused by metabolic and mechanical factors(Proske and Morgan 2001; Clarkson and Hubel 2002). Progressive resistance exercise is an effective method for developing muscular strength and for the sports and fitness purposes has application especially for injury prevention and rehabilitation. Muscle strength has been defined as the most voluntary muscle torque or more recently, as the ability of the neuromuscular system to make force.
Author Name : Muniraju, M. G & Dr. S. Suthakar
Keywords: Muscular strength endurance, Upper body strength, passing ability, Regular resistance training, short term training, stretching exercise, Skill training.
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