Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of kettle bell training on selected physical and performance related variables among handball players. For the present stud 30 male Handball players from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India, were selected at randomly and their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. For the present study pre-test post-test randomized group design which consists of control group and experimental group was used. The subjects were randomly assigned to 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 and not exposed to any specific training/ conditioning. The physical and performance related variables namely agility(4×10), balance, explosive strength, maximum strength, speed, and playing ability respectively was measured by shuttle run, stork balance, standing broad jump, 1RM test ,50 meter dash and judges rating respectively. 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 is six weeks has significant improvement in all the selected physical and performance related variables namely ,agility, balance, explosive strength, maximum strength, speed and playing ability among handball players.
Author Name (s): C.Vairavasundaram & Dr.A.Palanisamy
Keywords: Handball playing ability, Kettle bell Training.
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