EFFECTS OF GAME SPECIFIC AEROBIC TRAINING ON MOTOR FITNESS COMPONENTS AMONG FOOTBALL PLAYERS

C. Yuvaraj; S. R. Rajarathnam; S. Rajesh; S. Arun Kumar

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C. Yuvaraj Director of Physical Education, Saraswathi Narayanan College (Autonomous), Madurai, Tamilnadu.
S. R. Rajarathnam Director of Physical Education, Virudhunagar S.Vellaichamy Nadar Polytechnic College (Autonomous), virudhunagar, Tamilnadu.
S. Rajesh Physical Director, Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.
S. Arun Kumar PhD, Research Scholar, Department of Physical Education, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.

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Specific Aerobic Training, Speed, Agility & Endurance, Football Players.

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The rationale of this study was to explore the effect of game specific aerobic training on motor fitness components among football players. To achieve this purpose of the study thirty college level men football players were selected from Saraswathi Narayanan College (Autonomous), Madurai, Tamilnadu, India were randomly selected as subjects. Their age ranged in between 21 and 25 years. The subjects were divided into two groups namely game specific aerobic group and control group. The game specific aerobic band group was subjected (for weekly three days monday, wednesday, friday) at evening session for eight weeks. Speed, agility & endurance were selected as dependent variable. After the collection of appropriate data, it was statistically analyzed by using paired‘t’ test. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The result of the present study showed that the game specific aerobic training has significant improvement on Speed, agility & endurance of football players.

EFFECTS OF GAME SPECIFIC AEROBIC TRAINING ON MOTOR FITNESS COMPONENTS AMONG FOOTBALL PLAYERS

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