Effect of kalaripayattu on physical fitness variables among college students

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the effect of circuit training and speed agility quickness training on selected motor fitness among junior football players. For this 30 school boys junior football players were selected randomly from sports school at Neyveli as subjects. Their age ranged from 15 to 17 years. They were divided into three equal groups namely Experimental Group I, Experimental Group II and control group. Five days in a week, the Experimental Group I underwent circuit training, Experimental Group II underwent SAQ training and Group III control group was not given any specific training. The following criterion variables were chosen, namely speed and agility. They were assessed before and after the training period of 12 weeks. The analysis of covariance was used to determine any significant difference present among the three groups of the dependent variables. The study revealed that the selected motor fitness variables were significantly improved due to the influence of circuit training and SAQ training among junior football players.