Volume : 7, Issue : 2, February - 2018

COMBINED EFFECT OF PLYOMETRIC OWN BODY RESISTANCE AND SWISS BALL TRAINING ON SELECTED BODY COMPOSITION VARIABLES OF SCHOOL LEVEL VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Y. Srinivasulu, Dr. E. Amudhan

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:&#10;12.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">The purpose of this study was to find out the combined effect of plyometric, own body resistance and swiss ball training on the selected body composition variables of school level volleyball players. The investigator selected forty eight (N=48) male volleyball players who represented for their schools from Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidhyalaya High School, Swami Shivananda Higher Secondary School (English and Tamil medium), and Ranga Swami Naidu Higher Secondary Schools periyanaicken palayam Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, were selected as subjects and their ages were <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;</span>ranged from 13 to 15 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups of twenty four each. Group &ndash;I acted as experimental group (Plyometric Own body resistance and Swiss ball trainings (POBRSBT). Group &ndash;II acted as Control Group (CG). The dependent variables namely total body fat percentage and trunk fat percentage were selected and measured </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.5pt;line-height:150%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii">by Tanita Body Composition Monitor</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.5pt;&#10;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> for this study. The data was analysed by the use of paired&lsquo;t&rsquo; test. The obtained&lsquo;t&rsquo; ratio was tested for significance at 0.05 level of confidence. The analysis of the data revealed that there was a significant improvement on the selected criterion variables namely total body fat percentage and trunk fat percentage by the application of plyometric, own body resistance and swiss ball training (POBRSBT).<o:p></o:p></span></p>