Effect of Weight Training Programme on Motor Fitness Components of School Students

Abstract

        The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of weight training programme on selected motor fitness components in adolescents Handball players. The five components of motor fitness are agility, balance, speed, explosive strength and flexibility. Motor fitness is one aspect of the multidimensional construct of physical fitness which is defined as a “set of attributes that people have or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity.

 To achieve the purpose, 50 school students aged 14 to 15 years volunteered to take part in this study. The experimental group underwent weights training program three days in a week for six weeks. The subjects were assessed before and after 6 weeks of training. The results of the present study support the use of weight training to improve the motor fitness level in the adolescents.

The subjects were divided into two equal groups. The study was formulated as a true random group design, consisting of a pre-test and post-test. The subjects (n=50) were randomly assigned to two equal groups of twenty five subjects each. The groups were assigned as weight training programme group (PTG) and control group (CG) in an equivalent manner. The following are the selected criterion variables; motor fitness variables of explosive strength, muscular endurance, speed and agility. All the subjects were tested immediately prior and after the experimental programme. ‘t’ ratio was applied to analyse the significant difference. The .05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the ‘t’ ratio obtained by the analysis, which was considered as an appropriate. Based on the result of the study it was concluded that, the weight training programme produced a significant development on the selected motor fitness components of school students.