Effect of ladder drill and SAQ training on speed and agility among sports club badminton players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of ladder drill and SAQ training on speed and agility among sports club badminton players. In order to achieve the purpose of the study thirty men sports club badminton players were randomly selected from Dindugal city sports clubs and they were equally divided in to three groups of ten each as experimental group-I, experimental group-II and control group. The experimental groups and control group undergone normal routine badminton practices and in addition the experimental group-I underwent ladder drill and experimental group-II underwent SAQ training for one hour in the morning sessions. The control group was not given any special training. The period of training was eight weeks in a schedule of weekly three days for alternate days. The data were collected on the selected dependent variables before and after the training period. The collected the data were statistically analyzed by using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) and Scheffe’s post hoc test. To test the significance .05 level of confidence was fixed. Based on the results the study it was concluded that the ladder drill and SAQ training were significantly improved the speed and agility among sports clubs badminton players.