A STUDY OF EFFECTS OF PLYOMETRIC TRAINING ON FEMALE KABADDI PLAYERS

Miss. Mareena T Mathew, Mr. Madhu G R., Mr.Ravi T S

ABSTRACT
The present study aimed to discover the effects of plyometric training on female Kabaddi players. This study was conducted on randomly selected 30 female Kabaddi players from Alva’s college Moodbidri. Their age ranged from 16 to 25 years. Players practiced Plyometric training for 60 minutes thrice a week for 4 weeks. For data collection standing broad jump and medicine ball throw test was used to measure lower body and upper body explosive strength respectively. Data that was collected from the subject through pre-test and post-test, the collected data was calculated by mean, standard deviation, and t-test. All the statistical analyses were done at the significance level of 0.5. Results are shown by using appropriate figures.

Keywords: Plyometric, Kabaddi, standing broad jump, medicine ball throw, etc.