EFFECT OF MODERATE INTENSITY ENDURANCE AND HIGH INTENSITY INTERMITTENT TRAINING ON SELECTED EXPLOSIVE POWER OF MEN HANDBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the study forty five men handball players were selected as subjects at random from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India. The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 28 years. The number of groups divided in to three; they were named as experimental group-I (moderate intensity endurance training group), experimental group-II (high intensity intermittent training group) and group-III acted as control. The number of subjects in each group was confined to fifteen only. The study was restricted to endurance training with two variations in intensity. The duration of the training period was restricted to twelve weeks and the number of sessions per week was confined to three, the selected criterion variable is explosive power measured with vertical jump. The collected data pre and post test treated with ANCOVA. If obtained ‘F’ ratio was significant scheffe’s post hoc test used. Level of significant was fixed at 0.05. There was a significance difference among the moderate intensity endurance training group, high intensity intermittent training group and control group on explosive power. The moderate intensity endurance training group and high intensity intermittent training group has significantly improved the explosive power when compared with the control group. It was also concluded that the high intensity intermittent training group has significantly improved explosive power than the moderate intensity endurance training group.