INFLUENCE OF SAQ TRAINING ON SPEED AND AGILITY AMONG GRASSROOTS VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

This study was designed to investigate the influence of SAQ training on speed and agility among grassroots volleyball players. To achieve the purpose of the study 30 grassroots volleyball players were selected from Sacred College, Thevara, Kerala. The selected subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups (n=15). Group- I underwent SAQ training and it is called as SAQ Training Group (SAQTG) and Group - II act as a control group (CG). The respectiveSAQ training was given to the SAQTG for 3 days per week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) the period of twelve weeks. The control group was not be given any sort of training except their routine. The speed was measured by 50-meterdashand agility was measured by 4 x 10 shuttle run test. The data collected from the subjects was statistically analyzed with‘t’ ratio to find out significant improvement if any at 0.05 level of confidence.The results of this study indicated that theinfluence of SAQ training significantly changes over the speed and agility of grassroots volleyball players.