Effect of resistance training on selected physical fitness variables of tennis players

Abstract

The impartial of this study was to travel the resistance training on selected physical fitness variables of tennis players, totally 30 inter collegiate players to participate in this study. Treatment group I underwent resistance training, group II acted as control group. All thirty subjects were inducted for pre and posttest on agility and leg explosive power. The ladder training was given to the experimental group for 5 days per week (Monday to Friday) for the period of eight weeks. The control group was not given any sort of training except their routine work. The agility (4 x 10 meter shuttle run in seconds) and leg explosive power (standing broad jump test) were assessed before and after training period. The result from ‘t’ test and inferred that 12 weeks resistance training treatment produced identical changes over agility and leg explosive power of tennis players. Further, the findings confirmed the resistance training is suitable protocol to bring out the desirable changes over agility and leg explosive power of tennis players.