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| Article Name : | | | EFFECT OF ISOLATED AND COMBINED SWISS BALL AND FLEXIBILITY TRAINING ON SELECTED PHYSICAL FITNESS AND SKILL PERFORMANCE VARIABLES AMONG SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS | | Author Name : | | | M. NATARAJAN AND CH. VST. SAI KUMAR | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-80 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of isolated and combined Swiss ball and flexibility training on selected physical fitness and skill performance variables among school volleyball players. To achieve this purpose, forty male volleyball players studying various schools in Vellore district, Tamilnadu, India, during the academic year 2012-2013 were randomly selected as subjects and their age ranged from 16 to 18 years. The selected subjects were divided into four groups of ten subjects each. Group-I underwent Swiss ball training, group-II underwent flexibility training, group-III underwent combined Swiss ball and flexibility training, and group-IV acted as control. All the subjects of the four groups were tested on selected dependent variable namely speed, muscular strength, flexibility, coordination, serving ability and volleying ability at before the commencement of training programme (pre-test) and after the respective training for a period of twelve weeks (post-test). The data collected from the three groups prior to and post experimentation on selected dependent variables were statistically analyzed to find out the significant difference if any, by applying the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Since four groups were involved, whenever the obtained 'F' ratio value was found to be significant for adjusted post test means, the Scheffe's test was applied as post hoc test to determine the paired mean differences, if any. In all the cases the level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 for significance. It was concluded that combined Swiss ball and flexibility training was significantly better than isolated Swiss ball training and flexibility training in improving speed, muscular strength, serving ability and volleying ability. In improving flexibility of the volleyball player's flexibility training was significantly better than combined training and Swiss ball training however, no significant differences were found between the experimental groups in altering the coordination of the volleyball players. | | Keywords : | | - swiss ball training
- flexibility training
- physical fitness.
- skill performance
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