doi no.: 05-2016-44975451

Ajit Kumar Chaubey¹

Affiliations

^{1 Assistant Professor, Central University, Mahendragarh, Haryana}

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the present investigation  was to find out the effects of selected plyometric exercises on explosive strength of college level sportsmen. For this purpose,  sixty college level sportsmen  who volunteered to participate in this study were randomly selected. The selected sportsmen were divided into two equal groups, namely experimental group and control group. Experimental group  was given plyometric exercises and control group was not given any experimental treatment except of their regular workouts. Experimental Group   performed plyometric drills i.e. Hopping on one leg:, Hopping, Bounding and Box Jumps and   Depth Jumping. The standing broad jump was  the criterion measures used to measure explosive strength of the college level sportsmen. The statistical analysis of data showed that there was significant effect of  plyometric training on explosive strength. The significant improvement in explosive strength was seen more on plyometric group  than control group

Keywords: Plyometric training, Explosive Strength, College level, Sportsmen.

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