Effects of Volleyball Specific Resistance Training and Skill Training Packages on the Development of Leg Explosive Power and Speed on the Higher Secondary Level School Boys

The present study was to find out the effects of Volleyball Specific Resistance Training and Skill Training Packages on the Development of leg explosive power and speed on the Higher Secondary level School boys of Kolar District, Karnataka. To examine the study, 80 higher secondary school boys were selected from Kolar district, Karnataka. The age group ranges from 15 to 17years. Subjects were equally divided into four equal groups namely three experimental groups and one control group. Experimental Group-I underwent Volleyball Specific Resistance Training with Skill Training, Experimental Group-II underwent Volleyball Specific Resistance Training without Skill Training, Experimental Group-III underwent General Resistance Training without Skill Training and group IV Control group did not participate in any special training programme. The training programme was scheduled for all the experimental and control group for twelve weeks, prior and after the training for the subjects, pre - test and post - test were conducted on speed (50 yards dash) and leg explosive power(vertical jump)were tested. The data collected from the subjects were statistically analyzed with ‘t’ ratio to find out significant difference among pre test to post test for experimental groups and control group. The analysis of variance and covariance was used to find out the mean difference among the groups. The result indicates that the Volleyball Specific Resistance Training with Skill Training had better improvement on speed and leg explosive power.