EFFECT OF INTERVAL AND ALTERNATE PACE RUNNING ON STRENGTH ENDURANCE

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of interval and alternate pace running on strength endurance. To achieve this purpose of the study, forty five men students studying in the Pachaiyappa’s College for Men, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, were selected as subjects and they were divided into three equal groups of fifteen subjects each, such as interval training group, alternate pace running group, and control group. The interval training group and alternate pace running group underwent respective trainings for three days per week for twelve weeks in which the control group did not participate in any special training programme apart from the regular physical education activities as per the curriculum. The following variable namely strength endurance was selected as criterion variable and was tested by using bend knee sit ups test. All the subjects of three groups were tested on selected dependent variables at prior to and immediately after the training programme. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the significant difference, if any, among the groups. Since, three groups were compared, whenever the obtained “F” ratio for adjusted post test was found to be significant, the scheffe’s test to find out the paired mean differences, if any. 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 as an appropriate. The results of the study revealed that there was a significant difference among interval training group, alternate pace running group and control group on strength endurance. And also the results of the study showed that there was a significant improvement on strength endurance due to interval training, and alternate pace running.