Effect of Circuit training on Grass Gravel and Synthetic field on Motor Fitness and performance variables of College men hockey players

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of circuit training on grass, gravel and synthetic field on motor fitness and performance variables among college hockey players. To achieve the purpose of the study 80 male hockey players from different arts and science and engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu the selected as subjects and their age group of 18 -25 years. The study was formulated as a true random group design consisting of a pre-test and post test. The subjects (N=80) were randomly assigned to four equal groups of twenty subjects in each group. Namely, experimental group I, experimental group II, experimental group III and control group. Experimental group I was circuit training on grass field(Adhiayamaan College of Engg), experimental group II was circuit training on gravel field (AUCPE), experimental group III was with circuit training on synthetic field (Sourshtra College of Arts and Science) and the control group was not given any experiment. Pre tests were conducted for all the subjects on selected motor fitness variables such as speed, agility, leg strength and Cardio Vascular endurance, and Performance variables of dribbling, kitting and trapping. The training programme alternate days of twelve weeks. The post tests were conducted on the above said dependent variables after the experimental period of twelve weeks for all the three groups. It is concluded that three experimental groups have achieved significant improvement as compared to control group towards improving motor fitness variables and performance variables. The significance difference between the circuit training on grass is better than circuit training on gravel. Circuit training on gravel is better than compared with circuit training on synthetic fields. Circuits training on synthetic field have shown statistically better for motor fitness variables and performance variables. newline