Author(s): M Manikandan and Dr. S Sivasankar

Abstract:
To achieve the purpose of the present study was to find out the effect of sand training on selected muscular strength of large area games inter collegiate players. For this purpose, sixty large area games of inter collegiate players were selected from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore Tamil Nadu India were selected as subjects at random. The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 25 years. They were assigned to two groups namely experimental group-I (n=30) sand training and group-II (n=30)acted as control group. The experimental group for 12 weeks 3 days a week for 90 minutes duration. The selected criterion variable muscular strength assessed with sit ups. After twelve weeks sand training practice post test data were collected and treated with dependent ‘t’test. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05. The study results showed that the experimental group-I had significantly improved on muscular strength due to the effect of sand training group compared with and control group. The control group did not improve the muscular strength of intercollegiate large area game players.

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