EVALUATION OF FLEXIBILITY IN TWO TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS: PREDICTION OF PHYSICAL PARAMETER

The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of two training methods on flexibility of Volleyball players. To achieve this purpose of the study, sixty volleyball players from Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India were tested. Age group between 18 to 21 years. They were divided into three equal groups of each twenty subjects. The group I aerobic training group, group II weight training group conducted test for three days per week for twelve weeks and group III acted as control. The following variables namely flexibility was selected as criterion variables. The flexibility was assessed by sit and reach in centimeters. All the subjects of three groups were tested on selected criterion variables at prior to and immediately after the training programme as pre and post test selection. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference if any, among the groups on each selected criterion variables separately. In all the cases .05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as appropriate. And there was an improvement as per selected criterion variables namely flexibility with respect to two training methods training.