EFFECTS OF PROPRIOCEPTIVE TRAINING WITH PNF STRETCHING ON SELECTED MOTOR FITNESS COMPONENTS AMONG INTER-COLLEGIATE LEVEL FIELD HOCKEY PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to investigate effects of proprioceptive training with PNF stretching on selected motor fitness components among inter-collegiate level field hockey players. In this study, a total of thirty players were randomly selected from SRMV Maruthi College of Physical Education, Coimbatore, with ages ranging between 18 and 23 years. The participants were divided into two groups of fifteen each and assigned as control group and experimental group. The experimental treatment was applied only to the experimental group for a period of six weeks, while the control group did not receive any intervention. The proprioceptive training combined with PNF stretching was conducted thrice a week. After six weeks, the final performance of both the control and experimental groups was assessed. The significant differences between the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental and control groups were determined using a dependent t-test. The level of significance was set at 0.05 for a degree of freedom of 1 and 14. The results indicated that the experimental group showed significant improvement in the selected motor fitness components.