Comparison of shoulder and leg explosive strength between intercollegiate volleyball and handball male players

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was comparison of shoulder and leg strength between intercollegiate volleyball and handball male players. The present researcher was taken the male subjects for the study. The sources of data would be made from the Volleyball and Handball male Players; those are participated in the intercollegiate tournament of Tumkur university intercollegiate tournament. The researcher was selected 30 players from each games Volley ball (n=30) and Handball (n=30).The 60 Subjects would be selected by simple random sampling method. Following equipments would be used for collection of data: 1) Shoulder strength was measured by push-up test. 2) Leg explosive strength was measure by standing broad jump test. The data for the study is to be collected and statistical analysis and interpretation of data will be done by using statistical technique ‘t’ test because in the present study only two variables are taken into consideration i.e. shoulder and leg strength between volleyball and handball players. The level of significance is 0.05 for testing the hypothesis. Result there was a no significant difference in shoulder strength between the volleyball and Handball male players. There was a significant difference in leg strength between the volleyball and Handball male players.