EFFECT OF CONCURRENT TRAINING ON SELECTED PHYSICAL FITNESS OF MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNERS

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of concurrent training on physical<br> fitness components. The study employed experimental research design. All 26 Awuscod<br> middle distance runners were taken with EG and CG and divided randomly into two<br> equal groups. Both the (EG= 13) and (CG= 13) had taken PT and POT of 12-minute<br> run test, push-up and abdominal curl up test, wall-sit test, sit-reach test, and 30 meter<br> acceleration test to assess cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular<br> strength, flexibility and speed respectively. Only experimental participated in additional<br> 10 weeks CT interventions. While, the CG continued with their usual training The data<br> collected from the study subject were analyzed using SPSS version 25 software by using<br> descriptive statistics (mean and SD) and inferential statistics (paired t-test and<br> independent t-test) with level of significant 0.05. The results showed CT has significantly<br> improved cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and<br> speed on EG (p&lt;0.05).But no significant difference was observed in flexibility.<br> Furthermore, no more significant differences were found in all of the variables in CG<br> (p&gt;0.05). Therefore, this study concluded that concurrent training intervention program<br> carried out during ten weeks intervention period is conducive, effective has an<br> improvement of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength,<br> and speed