Effect of Volleyball Specific Resistance Training and Skill Training Packages on the Development of Flexibility and Muscular Strength and Endurance on the Higher Secondary Level School Boys

The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of volleyball specific training and skill training programme on the development of flexibility and muscular strength and endurance on the Higher Secondary Level School boys of Kolar District, Karnataka. Eight male volleyball players of Kolar District, Karnataka were selected as subject for the present study. All the subjects were in good health and they participated in regular volleyball practice. The age of the subjects ranged between 15 and 17 years. Eighty male volleyball players of Kolar district were divided into four equal groups on the basis of random method. The four groups were assigned as experimental group 1 (Volleyball Specific Resistance Training with Skill Training, experimental groups 2 (Volleyball Specific Resistance Training without Skill training, experimental group 3(General Resistance Training without Skill Training and one control group. Experimental groups underwent specific resistance and skill training programme for a period of twelve weeks and the control group did not practise any specific training programme. The level of significance to test the obtained ‘t’ value was fixed at 0.05 level of confidence which was considered to be adequate for the purpose of the study. The ANCOVA statistical technique was used to find the mean difference between the groups on physical variables of flexibility and muscular strength and endurance. The results of the study revealed a significant group × test interaction (p < 0.05). Follow-up analyses indicated that while group differences in physical variables existed among the three groups of the pre-test. In the post test all the experimental groups were found to have significantly (p < 0.05) better performance on the physical variables than the control group. The findings of the present study suggest that volleyball specific resistance training with skill training improved the physical variables on flexibility and muscular strength and endurance of higher secondary level school boys of Kolar district, Karnataka.