EFFECT OF WEIGHT TRAINING AND YOGIC PRACTICES ON SELECTED PHYSICAL VARIABLES AMONG FOOTBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of weight training and yogic practices on selected physical variables among football players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, forty-five football players from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 18 to 23 years. The subjects were divided into three equal groups of fifteen each. The groups were assigned as Experimental Group-I, Experimental Group-II and Control Group in an equivalent manner. Experimental Group-I was exposed to weight training, Experimental Group-II was exposed to yogic practices and Control Group was not exposed to any experimental training other than their regular daily activities. The duration of experimental period was 6 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the forty five subjects were tested on their physical variables. This final test scores formed as post test scores of the subjects. The pre test and post test scores were subjected to statistical analysis using dependent ‘t’ test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significance among the mean differences, whenever the ‘F’ ratio for adjusted test was found to be significant, Scheffe’s post hoc test was used. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. It was observed that the six weeks of yogic practices have significantly improved the flexibility than the weight training and control group. It was observed that the six weeks of weight training have significantly improved the agility than the of yogic practices and control group.