Author(s): Ravikumar M

Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to find out the influence of pre season training on speed among state level cricketers. Randomized single group experimental design was followed for this study. The cricketers were selected randomly who participated at state level cricket championship (n=30. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups, each group consisting of 15 cricketers. Group I was treated with pre season training and termed as experimental group. And group II was considered as control group and they were not participated any treatment. Before the experimental period, each subjects were measured of their physical fitness variable selected for this study. After the completion of the experimental period again the subjects were tested of 50 meter dash. The difference between the initial and final scores of the groups was considered as the influence of pre season training. The obtained data were subjected to statistical treatment using ANCOVA. In all cases 0.05 level was fixed to test the significance of the results. Thus, it was proved that pre season training group gained mean difference of 0.01 which was due to pre season training given to cricketers and the difference was found to be significant at 0.05 level. It was concluded that pre season training improved physical fitness variable such as, speed of the cricketers.

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