Effect of High Intensity Interval Training and Circuit Resistance Training on Selected Physiological Variables among College Level Football Players

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of high intensity interval training and circuit resistance training on selected physiological variables among football players. To achieve the purpose of the study forty five football players from Renugambal College of Physical Education, Thiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu, were randomly selected and their age ranged between 18 to 25 years. The subjects (N=45) were randomly assigned to three equal groups of fifteen football players each. 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. Pre test was conducted for all the subjects on selected physiological variables. This initial test scores formed as pre test scores of the subjects. The groups were assigned as Experimental Group I, Experimental Group II and Experimental Group I and Control Group in an equivalent manner. Experimental Group I was exposed to high intensity interval training, Experimental Group II was exposed to high intensity interval training and circuit resistance training and Control Group was not participated in any training. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the forty five subjects were tested on their physiological variables. 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 dependant ‘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. The high intensity interval training and circuit resistance training better than the high intensity interval training on the improvement of the physiological variables among the college level football players