Authors :

R. Karthika Banu* and T. Radhakrishnan,

Author Address :

School of Physical Education, Karpagam University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract :

The study was designed to investigate the “effect of specific training on motor fitness parameters of school basketball girls”. To achieve this purpose 30 school level basketball girls were randomly selected from Thiyagi NGR memorial higher secondary school, Coimbatore. They were divided into two groups.  The group I was considered as the experimental group and group II was considered as a control group. The investigator did not make any attempt to equate the group. The control group was not given any exercise and the experimental group was given specific training for five days per week. The experimental group was given training for the period of 8 weeks of specific training. The following criterion variables were chosen for namely speed, and leg explosive power. All the dependent variables were assessed before and after the training period of 8 weeks. The collected data on motor fitness parameters due to effect of specific training was analyzed by computing mean and standard deviation. In order to find out  the significant improvement if any, ‘t’ test was applied. 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the level of significance. The study revealed that the motor fitness parameters were significantly improved due to the influence of specific training of basketball girls.

Keywords :

Specific training, motor fitness, speed, explosive power and Basketball