Effect of weight training and plyometric training on anaerobic capacity of collegemen

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to find out the effect of weight training and plyometric trainings on anaerobic capacity of college men. Forty five college men students were selected as subject at random from H. H. The Rajah’s College, Pudukkottai district and their age ranged from 18 to 22 years. The study was formulated as pre and post test random group design, in which forty five college men were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-I (n=15, WT) underwent weight training, experimental group-II (n=15, PT) underwent plyometric training and group III served as control group (n=15, CG) did not undergo any specific training. In this study, two training programs were adopted as independent variable, i.e., weight training and plyometric training. The dependent variable was selected as anaerobic capacity, selected two variables as maximum power and average power. Maximum power and average power measured by RAST (Running - Based Anaerobic Sprint Test), performance was recorded in seconds. The selected two treatment groups were performed alternative three days in a week for the period of eight weeks, as per the stipulated training program. The anaerobic capacity was tested before and after the training period. The collected pre and post data was critically analyzed with apt statistical tool analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA), for observed the significant adjusted post-test mean difference of three groups. The Scheffe’s post hoc test was used to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups. To test the hypothesis 0.05 level of significant was fixed in this study. The results proved that the selected training produced significant improvement and significant difference exist due to the effect of weight training and plyometric trainings on anaerobic capacity of college men students, when compared with the control group.