Author(s): S Chandra Mohan and Dr. STN Rajeswaran

Abstract:
Strength is important because muscle mass diminishes as you age. Just like flexibility, endurance, cardiovascular health and balance, you must stimulate your muscles or else you will lose muscle mass. Strength training puts stress on your bones and helps to increase bone density. By stressing your bones, strength training can increase bone density and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Manage your weight. Strength training can help you manage or lose weight, and it can increase your metabolism to help you burn more calories. Strength training also known as weight or resistance training is physical activity designed to improve muscular fitness by exercising a specific muscle or muscle group against external resistance, including free-weights, weight machines, or own body weight, according to the American Heart Association. The present study was to find out the effects of strength and coordination training on selected skills in school level boys field hockey players. The selected subjects were the participants of inter school level students of Hockey tournament and their ranged between 12 and 14 year and pre and post-test random group design. Eighty students were randomly selected, they undergone Four equal group such as strength training group coordination training group combination training group and control group. In testing the significance of mean difference on post-test among the students. The whole students were taken as a strength training group coordination training group and they were psychologically motivated as shown in methodology. The result indicates that the mean differences on criterion variables used in the study at the end of the treatment was found to be statistically significant. Thus it was found that there was a significant mean difference among the students in the variables used in the study.

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