2023, Vol. 10, Issue 6, Part E

Basketball is considered as one of the most popular sports in the world. It is played and watched by more people than any game, extending to more than 170 countries around the globe. Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. Basketball stands as the third fastest game played in short court surfaces. Players have been trained with varied physical training module namely stretching exercises, resistance training, plyometric training, interval training, and combination of these and so on. Of these, plyometric and resistance training are very widely used in the game of basketball since it develops the strength and explosive power which are the major determinants of performance of a player in basketball. Training programmed for improving bio motor variables speed, agility, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance and muscular strength and endurance. The idea of the study was to find out the enhancing bio motor variables among inter collegiate basketball players through complex training with and without interval training. To achieve the purpose of the study, 60 inter collegiate basketball players would randomly selected from Coimbatore district and their age ranged between 18 and 25year. All bio motor variables were assessed by standard tests; Speed (50m dash), Agility (4x10 shuttle run), Flexibility (sit and reach), Cardiovascular endurance (Cooper 12-minute run and walk) and muscular strength and endurance (sit ups). Complex training with interval training group, Interval training group and Control group (n = 60) would undergone for a period of 12 weeks. The results revealed that there was a significant difference found on the criterion variables. The difference was found by complex training with interval training and interval training given to the experimental group I, experimental group II and control group on speed, agility, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance and muscular strength and endurance of inter collegiate basketball players.