Author(s): Dhruv Arora, Dr. Sanjib Kumar Bhowmik and Dr. Saon Sanyal Bhowmik

Abstract:
The purpose of conducting this study was to find out the comparative effect of calisthenics exercises on the explosive strength among various racket sports players. The study was conducted by randomly selecting 30 male racket game players from sports specialization of badminton, table tennis and tennis with their age ranging between of 18 to 22 years from Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, North East Regional Centre and Guwahati, Assam. The total subjects (N = 30) were further divided into two groups with 15 subjects experimental & control group each. The experimental group was given 6-week calisthenic training program thrice a week for 45 minutes a session whereas the control group was not given any calisthenic training. Pre-test and post test was conducted for all 30 subjects selected prior to and after the implementation of the calisthenics training, the data was analysed using mean and SD as descriptive statistics. To reveal the result on comparative effect of the training two-way ANOVA was employed and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed that in the variable of explosive strength there was no significant differences seen in the test scores as well as between the experimental and control group.

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