Influence of plyometric training programme on selected physical fitness variables among volleyball players

Abstract

The reason of this study was to discover the influence of plyometric training programme on selected physical fitness variables among inter-collegiate level men volleyball players. To realize this purpose of the study thirty various colleges of Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu state, India. The subject had past experience of at least three years in volleyball and was randomly selected as subjects. Their age ranged in between 19 and 22 years. The subjects were divided into two groups namely plyometric group and control group. The plyometric group was subjected to plyometric training (for weekly three days Monday, Wednesday, Friday) at evening session for six weeks. Speed, agility and leg explosive power was selected as dependent variable. After the collection of appropriate data, it was statistically analyzed by using paired ‘t’ test. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The result of the present study showed that the plyometric training has significant improvement on speed, agility and leg explosive power of inter-collegiate level men volleyball players.