EFFECT OF LADDER TRAINING ON SPEED, AGILITY AND QUICKNESS AMONG BADMINTON PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of ladder training on speed, agility and quickness among badminton players. Thirty men badminton players from Royal Badminton Academy, Sattur were selected randomly as subjects. The age of the students ranged from 8 to 12 years. The selected subjects were divided into two groups namely ladder training group and control group, Group A underwent ladder 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 as criterion variable namely speed, agility and quickness were measured by 50 yards dash, shuttle run and Nelson Hand Speed of Movement 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. There was a significant improvement on speed, agility and quickness due to the effects of the ladder training among badminton players.