AN IMPACT OF RESISTANCE TRAINING, PILATES EXERCISES ON MUSCULAR STRENGTH AMONG INTER-COLLEGIATE MEN FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Dr.M. Pari

Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2016

AN IMPACT OF RESISTANCE TRAINING, PILATES EXERCISES ON MUSCULAR STRENGTH AMONG INTER-COLLEGIATE MEN FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Dr. M. Pari

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;Aim of the study was designed to find out the impact of Resistance training, Pilates Exercises on Muscular Strength among Inter-collegiate men Football players. To attain the purpose, Forty five(N=45) men Football players studying various Arts &amp; Science Colleges, affiliated to University of Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India, during the year 2014- 2015 were selected as subjects. The age of the subjects were ranged from 18 to 21 years. Among various sports specific trainings only, Resistance training, Pilates training was selected for this study. The subjects were divided at random into three groups of fifteen each (n=15). Group-I underwent Resistance Training, Group-II underwent Pilates Exercises and Group-III acted as Control. All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the training for all the selected variables. The dependent variable selected for this study was Muscular Strength, and it was assessed by 1RM Bench Press test. Data were collected before and after the training period of 12 weeks. One way ANCOVA was used to find out the significant differences. Scheffe&rsquo;s post hoc test was applied to determine the significant difference between the paired means. In all the cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference among the Experimental groups and control group on Muscular Strength. Further, the results of the study showed Pilates Exercises group was better than Resistance training group and Control Group in Muscular Strength.</p>