Effect of Defense and Offense Skill Training on Selected Motor Fitness Variables among Inter School Boys Volleyball Players

The purpose of the present study was to find out the effect of defense and offense skill training on selected motor fitness variables among interschool boys volleyball players. To achieve the purpose of the study, interschool boys volleyball players were selected from Vani Vidyalayam School, K.K. Nagar, Chennai. The subject’s age between 15 to 17 years. The selected subjects were divided into three equal groups consisting of twenty volleyball players each, namely experimental group I, experimental group II, and control group. The experimental group I underwent a defense skill training program for twelve weeks. The Experimental Group II underwent an offense skill training program for twelve weeks. The control group was not participating in any training during the study. Agility, explosive power, and speed were taken as criteria variables in this study. The pre-test and post-test scores were subjected to statistical analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significance of the mean differences. Scheffe’s post hoc analysis was used whenever the F-ratio was found to be significant for the adjusted test. In all cases, a significance level of 0.05 was adopted to test the hypotheses. The result showed that significant differences were found on the criterion variables. The difference is found due to defense and offense skill training given to the experimental group on agility, explosive power, and speed when compared to the control group.