Impact of Kettle Bell Training on Selected Performance Variables among Soccer Players

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to find out the kettle bell training on selected performance variables among soccer players. Thirty male soccer players were selected randomly from the M.D.T. Hindu College, Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu State, India, and their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. The subjects were randomly assigned into two equal groups of fifteen each and named as Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’. Group ‘A’ underwent kettle bell training and Group ‘B’ acted as control which was not exposed any specific training/ conditioning. The performance variables passing, dribbling and shooting were assessed the Mor-Christian soccer skill test. The data was collected before and after 6 weeks of kettle bell training. The data was analyzed by applying Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) technique to find out the impact of Kettle bell training programme. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The findings of the present study have strongly indicates that Kettle bell training of six weeks has significant improvement in all the selected performance variables namely passing, dribbling and shooting among soccer players.

Author Name : Dr.S.Arumugam & G.Vigneshwaran

Keywords: Kettle bell Training, Passing, Dribbling, Shooting and Soccer Players.