VARIED INTENSITIES OF BENCH STEP TRAINING ON BREATH HOLDING TIME OF COLLEGE MEN STUDENTS

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of bench stepping exercise on selected physiological variable such as breath holding time. To achieve this purpose of the study, thirty male students studying in the Jawahar College of Arts and Sciences, Neyveli, were randomly selected as subjects and they were divided into three equal groups, each group consisted often subjects. Group I underwent bench stepping exercise for two days per week for eight weeks, Group II underwent bench stepping exercise for three days per week for eight weeks and Group III acted as control group who did not participate in any special training apart from their regular curricular activities. The subjects were tested on selected criterion variable breath holding rate at prior to and immediately after the training period. The selected criterion variables such as speed was measured by breath holding time was measured by holding the breath for maximum time respectively. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference if any, between the experimental groups and control group on selected criterion variables separately. In all the cases, .05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as an appropriate. It was concluded that the training groups, i.e. two days per week and three days per week training, has better improvement in breath holding time