Author(s): Dr. K Rajeshkumar and S Muralitharan

Abstract:
The game field hockey is a team-based sport and it demands number of external and internal factors like anthropometrical, physical, physiological and psychological characteristics to play the game at elite level. The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of contrast and concurrent training on selected physical, physiological and performance parameters among hockey players. To achieve the purpose of the study, forty-five (N = 45) male inter-collegiate level hockey players were selected from the various colleges in and around Kanchipuram District. The age of subjects ranged from 18 to 25 years. The subjects had past experience of at least four years in hockey and only those who represented their respective college teams were taken as subjects. All the subjects were informed about the nature of the study and there was obtained to co-operate till the end of the experiment and testing period. Experimental Group-I underwent contrast training and Experimental Group-II underwent concurrent training respectively. The control group was not exposed to any specific training /conditioning programme. The experimental treatment namely contrast training and concurrent training was administrated for a duration of 12 weeks and the number of session per week was confined to three alternative days and each session lasted 70 minutes, in addition to the regular schedule of the Hockey training. The following variables were selected namely: Physical variables Speed and Explosive power Physiological variables, Vital capacity and Force vital capacity. The data collected data from the three groups prior to and immediately after the training programme on the selected criterion variables were statistically analyzed with dependent ‘t’ test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). Whenever the ‘F’ ratio for adjusted post-test means was found to be significant, Scheffe’s test was followed, as a post hoc test to determine which of the paired mean differences was significant.

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