Abstract:The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of aerobic training on physical fitness components among kabaddi players of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. For this purpose 40-male students from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, were selected as subjects by employing simple Random sampling method and the age group of subjects were ranged between 21-30 years. All the subjects were equally distributed in two groups one control group (N=20), the experimental group (N=20). The experimental group were given 42 day’s aerobic training and no training was given to the control group.
The data were collected before and after the end of six weeks training programme by administrating following tests.
40–Yard shuttle run for agility and Harvard step test for cardiovascular endurance. The criterion measures were recorded in meter per second for agility, and fitness index was calculated for cardiovascular endurance. To find out the significant effect of aerobic training the mean difference and t-test was applied between per and post test scores of experimental and control group. The level of significant was set at 0,05 level of confidence.
The findings of this study showed significant effect on agility, and cardiovascular endurance.
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