Effects of Plyometric Exercise Training on Three Different Surfaces on Selected Fitness Variables among Male Volleyball Players

Abstract

Volleyball is one of the competitive sports, and the athletes performing in the game have to enhance their skills which are sports oriented as well as their physical skills in order to meet the demands of the game. Volleyball is complex because the dynamic nature of the game relies on demands that are athletic, tactical and technical. The game actions performed during the duration of the game involve set, serve, attack, reception and block. To perform these skills that are enhanced by improving the physical components of the body, the physical fitness level of the athletes is focused during training sessions. Plyometric training activates the stretch forces based on the principle of the Stretch- Shortening Cycle (SSC) mechanism. Plyometric training is physical conditioning using body weight jumping that promotes skill-based athletic performance11 and the training improves the neuromuscular system by neural excitation produced by elastic forces of consecutive eccentric muscle actions newline