Influence of sand training on selected health related fitness and aerobic power of college men football students

Abstract

The principle of the study was to access to influence of sand training on explosive power and aerobic power of college men students. Thirty (n=30) college men football students was selected from Chennai district, TamilNadu, India the age were ranged should be 18 to 24 years. The selected subject was assigned into two equal groups with fifteen subjects with each group. The experimental group-I sand training and group-II control group. The experimental groups were under 8 weeks of training and control group was not under experimentation. Explosive power was measured by Sargent jump test aerobic power was measured by Margaria-Kalamen Test was taken for both groups. The initial and the final readings derived from the experimental and the control group underwent a procedure of statistical analysis using ANOVA. The confidence level was 0.05. Result of the investigation shows sand training have significant improvement on explosive power and aerobic power when compare to the control group