Effect of strength training on selected physical fitness variables among university men kabaddi players

The purpose of the study was to find out the, Effect of strength training on selected physical fitness Variables among university men kabaddi players. To achieve the purpose of this study, twenty-four men kabaddi players studying in Department of physical education and sports sciences, Annamailai University Tamil Nadu, were selected as subjects. The selected subjects were randomly divided into two groups and each group contains 12 subjects. Group I acts as experimental group and group II acted as control group. The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 22 years and which was confirmed from the university record. The experimental group attended strength training for six weeks, where as the control group did not given any kind of training expect their daily activities. The simple t-test was used to find out significant improvement on selected variables in pre and post test. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find the significant difference among the groups. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05. It was concluded that there was a significant improvement on selected variables. During play, the players on the defensive side are called ‘Antis’ while the player of the offense is called the ‘Raider’. Kabaddi is perhaps the only combative sport in which attack is an individual attempt while defense is a group effort. The attack in Kabaddi is known as a ‘Raid’. The antis touched by the raider during the attack are declared out if they do not succeed in when their side scores points against the opposite side during their raiding turn or if the remaining players succeed in catching the opponent's raider.