ABSTRACT

The objective of the study was to find out the Effect of High Intensity Interval Training and Speed Endurance Training on Agility of Football Players. For the purpose of study Seventy Five male district level football players, aged between 18-25 years, were randomly selected from Birbhum, WB. Twenty five were randomly selected for high intensity interval training (HIIT) group, Twenty five were randomly selected for Speed endurance training (SET ) group and twenty five were selected as the control group for the study. Agility was considered as the variable for the study. Eight weeks high intensity interval training (HIIT) and  Speed endurance training (SET ) were administered to the experimental groups. The data was computed by descriptive statistics, ANCOVA and LSD post-hoc test. The result of the study revealed that the HIIT group and  SET group significantly improve the agility of the football players.