CHANGES IN PERFORMANCE RELATED FITNESS COMPONENTS DUE TO PACKAGE OF SPECIFIC FITNESS TRAINING AMONG VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to find out the changes in performance related fitness components due to package of specific fitness training among volleyball players. To achieve the purpose of the study thirty higher secondary school male volleyball players from Thanthai Periyar Higher Secondary School, Karaikal Pondicherry were selected as subjects. The age of the subjects were ranged from 15-18years. They were divided into two equal groups, each group consists of 15 subjects. Group-I was underwent to specific volleyball fitness training for five days in a week for twelve weeks, Group –II acted as control group (CG). They didn’t undergo for any specific training programme than the normal routine volleyball game. The performance related fitness components such as explosive power and muscular endurance were taken as the dependent variables for the study. The selected variables explosive power was assessed by vertical jump and muscular endurance was assessed by bent knee sit ups. The data were collected before and after twelve weeks of training. The data was analyzed by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The level of significance was fixed at 0.05. The findings of the present study have strongly indicate that that package of specific fitness training shows significant changes on selected performance fitness variables namely explosive power and muscular endurance of higher secondary school level male volleyball players.