INFLUENCE OF CIRCUIT TRAINING ON SPEED AND AGILITY AMONG COLLEGE MEN THROWBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was designed to examine the effect of circuit training on speed and agility of college men throwball players. For the purpose of the study, thirty men college throwball players from in the colleges in and around Warangal, Telangana, India were selected as subjects. They were divided into two equal groups. each group consisted of the fifteen subjects. Group I underwent circuit training for three days per week for twelve weeks. Group 2 acted as control who did not undergo any special training programme apart from their regular physical education programme. The following variables namely speed and agility were selected as criterion variables. All the subjects of two groups were tested on selected dependent variables by using 50 mts run and shuttle run respectively at prior to and immediately after the training programme. The analysis of covariance was used to analyze the significant difference, if any among the groups. The .05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the ‘F’ ratio obtained by the analysis of covariance, which was considered appropriate. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between circuit training group and control group on speed and agility. And also it was found that there was a significant improvement on speed and agility due to twelve weeks of circuit training.