EFFECTS OF AEROBIC AND CIRCUIT TRAINING ON ANXIETY AMONG FOOTBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of aerobic training and circuit on anxiety of men football players. To achieve this purpose of the study, sixty football players from Tamilnadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai were tested. They were divided into three equal groups of each twenty subjects. The group I aerobic training group, group II circuit training group conducted test for three days per week for twelve weeks and group III acted as control. The anxiety was assessed by Rainer Martens questionnaire in Numbers. All the subjects of three groups were tested on selected criterion variables at prior to and immediately after the training programme as pre and post test selection. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference if any, among the groups on each selected criterion variables separately. In all the cases .05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as appropriate. During the training period, the subjects were selected at random and were into three groups. Group I aerobic training, group II circuit training programme, for three days per week for twelve weeks. The data was collected from three groups at prior to and after completion of the training period on selected criterion variables were statistically examined for significant difference if any, by applying analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The Scheffe’s post hoc test was also applied to know the significant difference between groups. The obtained ‘F’ ratio was also significant. In all cases .05 level of confidence was utilized to test the significance. It was concluded that aerobic exercises and circuit practice groups were significantly reduced anxiety of the college men