Author(s): ES Narender, Ashwani kumar, Rahul Vashishtha

Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to ascertain the effect of 8-week flexibility training on the development of flexibility of 20 sports persons who were selected as subjects adopting convenient sampling. The subjects were regularly training at Dronacharya Gym situated in Subhash Nagar, New Delhi. The age of the subjects ranged from 25 to 35 years. The flexibility of the subjects was assessed using the sit and reach test. Thereafter the subjects followed a progressive training programme for a duration of eight weeks and after the conclusion of the training programme the flexibility was again tested. The data was analyzed using the mean difference method (t-ratio) and the level of significance was set at 0.05. The t-ratio obtained was – which revealed that the training program was effective in enhancing the flexibility of the subjects.

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