EFFECT OF WEIGHT TRAINING AND YOGIC PRACTICES ON EXPLOSIVE STRENGTH AMONG BASKETBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of weight training and yogic practices on explosive strength among basketball players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, forty five basketball players from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 18 to 24 years. The subjects were divided into three equal groups of fifteen each. Group I acted as Experimental Group-I (Weight Training), Group II acted as Experimental Group-II (Yogic Practices) and Group III acted as Control Group. The requirement of the experiment procedures, testing as well as exercise schedule was explained to the subjects so as to get full co-operation of the effort required on their part and prior to the administration of the study. This initial test scores formed as pre test scores of the subjects. 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 explosive strength. 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 weight training have significantly improved the explosive strength than the of yogic practices and control group.