Author(s): G Kannan and Dr. A Sreemathi

Abstract:
The objective of this study was to explore the effect of plyometric training on selected physical fitness and physiological variables of adolescent male tennis players, totally 30 males to participate in this study were selected randomly from various college at Coimbatore district. The subjects aged from 18 to 21 years. Treatment group I underwent plyometric training, group II acted as control group. All thirty subjects were inducted for pre and post-test on physical fitness and physiological variables. The plyometric training was given to the experimental group for 5 days per week (Monday to Friday) for the period of eight weeks. The control group was not given any sort of training except their routine work. The breath holding time, resting pulse rate, flexibility and leg explosive power were selected as dependent variable and it was measured by nose clip, cardio radial pulse, sit and reach, and standing broad jump. All the subjects were tested two days before and immediately after the experimental period on the selected dependent variables. The obtained data from the experimental group and control group before and after the experimental period were statistically analysed with dependent‘t’-test to find out significant improvements. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level confidence for all the cases. Significant improvement was found on breath holding time, resting pulse rate, flexibility and Leg Explosive power of experimental group due to the effect of plyometric training when compared to the control group.

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