EFFECT OF WEIGHT TRAINING ON SHOULDER STRENGTH AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of weight training on shoulder strength among college students. It was hypothesized that there would be significant differences on shoulder strength due to the effect of weight training among college students. For the present study the 30 male college students from Government Arts and Science College, Tirupattur were selected at random and their age ranged from 18 to 21 years. For the present study pre test - post test random group design which consists of control group and experimental group was used. The subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups of fifteen each. Group ‘A’ underwent weight training only, group ‘B’ have not underwent any training. The data was collected before and after twelve weeks of training. The data was analyzed by applying Analysis of Co-Variance test. The level of significance was set at 0.05. It was observed that the twelve weeks of weight training have significantly improved the shoulder strength of college students.