The effect of 6 weeks of body weight training combined with ladder drill on the agility of 11-12 year old badminton athletes

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effect of body weight training exercise combination ladder drill on the agility of badminton athletes. This research method is an experiment with the design of one group pretest-posttest design. The population used is all PB athletes. Sampling using purposive sampling technique with a total of 20 samples. The instrument to measure agility ability is a series of footwork tests. Data analysis technique used is the t-test with a significant level of p<0.05.Conclusion: there is a significant effect on body weight training combined with ladder drill on the agility of badminton athletes aged 11-12 years after 6 weeks. Based on the results of the T-test analysis, the significant value is 0.000, so p<0.05. Then looking at the results of the descriptive data at the time of the pretest, the average was 16.6, then increased to 19.5 during the posttest.