Impact of Treadmill and Sprint Interval Training Packages on Selected Motor Fitness Components and Skill Performance of Hockey Players

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the possibility cause and impact of treadmill and sprint interval training packages on selected motor fitness components and skill performance of hockey players. to achieve this purpose of the study, forty-five male hockey players were selected randomly from department of physical education, Bharathidasan Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nādu state, India, their age groups between 19 to 22 years, the participants were divided into three groups namely experimental group-I experimental group- II and control group-III consisting of fifteen hockey players each. Group-I underwent to treadmill training and Group-II underwent to sprint interval training and group-III acted as control group, who had not participated in any specific activity during the training period other than their daily schedule in the curriculum. All the participants were tested on selected motor fitness components namely speed, cardio vascular endurance, and skill performance namely passing, hitting. The training programme was scheduled for alternative days per week for six weeks. The duration of training session one hour to one and half hours approximately, the data were statistically analyzed with paired sample ‘t’ test and analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA). In all cases 0.05 levels will be fixed as level of confidence to test the hypotheses. There was a significant improvement on selected motor fitness components and skill performance of hockey players due to the impact of six weeks of treadmill and sprint interval training.