EFFECT OF DROP JUMP TRAINING ON SELECTED PERFORMANCE RELATED FITNESS VARIABLE AMONG FOOTBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of drop jump training on selected performance related fitness variable among football players. A total of thirty men football players from virudhunagar districts were selected randomly as subjects. The age of the students ranged from 18 to 21 years. The selected subjects were divided into two groups namely drop jump training group and control group, Group A underwent drop jump training for eight weeks of two days per weeks. Group B acted as control group, who were not engaged in any special activities other than their daily routine. The Selected performance related fitness variable namely speed and power were measured by 50 yards dash and vertical jump test. The data were collected from each subject before and after the training period and statistically analyzed by dependent‘t’ test which is used to find out the significant improvement on selected criterion variables and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference between the experimental and control groups on each variables separately, All the cases 0.05 level of confidence was fixed as a level of confidence to test the hypotheses. It was found that there was a significant improvement in drop jump training group on selected performance related fitness variable among football players. It was found that there was a significant difference between the drop jump training and control groups on selected performance related fitness variable.