EFFECT OF SWISSBALL TRAINING AND PLYOMETRIC TRAINING ON BALANCE AMONG MALE HOCKEY PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of swiss ball and plyometric training on selected physical variables among inter-collegiate male hockey players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, fifty-four players at the inter-collegiate level were selected as subjects at random from affiliated colleges of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu state, India and their ages ranged from 18 to 25 years. The selected subjects had earlier playing experience of at least four years in Hockey and only those who represented their respective college teams were taken as subjects. The selected variables were balance. The subjects (n=54) were randomly assigned into three equal groups of eighteen players each. The groups were named as Swiss ball training group (STG), Plyometric training group (CTG) and Control group (CG) in an equivalent manner. Both the training programmes were imparted to the respective groups for about 12 weeks. Analysis of covariance and scheffe’s test was followed. All the statistical analysis tests were computed at 0.05 level of significance. The experimental groups Hockey players showed significant improvement on balance when compared to the subjects in the control group