Effects of Two Modes of Circuit Training on Muscular Endurance (Lower Body) of School Boys

AbstractThe purpose of study was to find out the effects of two modes of circuit training on muscular endurance (lower body) of school boys. To achieve the purpose of the study, thirty school boys from Alagappa Fitness Foundation, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu were selected as subject at random. Their age group range between 12 to 14 years. The study was formulated as pre and posttest random group design, in which thirty subject were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n=10, CT) underwent circuit training, the experimental group-2 (n=10, CT-AP) underwent circuit training combined with asana practice and group 3 served as control group (n=10, CG) did not undergo any specific training. In this study, two training programme were adopted as independent variable, i.e., circuit training and circuit training combined with asana practice. The muscular endurance (lower body) was selected as dependent variable and it tested by sit-ups, the performance of the boys was recorded in numbers. The selected two treatment group’s namely circuit training and circuit training combined with asana practice were performed five days in a week for the period of six weeks, as per the stipulated training program. The muscular endurance (lower body) was tested before and after the training period. The collected pre and post data was critically analyzed with apt statistical tool of one-way analysis of co-variance, for observed the significant adjusted post-test mean difference of three groups with respect to muscular endurance (upper body). The Scheffee’s post hoc test was used to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups. To test the hypothesis 0.05 level of significant was fixed in this study.