Author(s): Rajesh C and Shejin KV

Abstract: Football is an exceptional avenue for achieving and maintaining physical fitness due to its dynamic and multifaceted nature. The sport's demanding requirements, such as continuous running, sprinting, and quick changes in direction, make it an excellent cardiovascular workout that enhances endurance and heart health. Additionally, football engages various muscle groups contributing to overall strength development in the lower body, core and upper body. The sport's emphasis on speed, agility and reaction time is evident in the sharp turns, rapid accelerations and stretching movements involved. Football also serves as an effective means of speed training with players regularly executing sprints and quick maneuvers during matches. The idea of the study was to find out the enhancing physical fitness components of inter collegiate men football players through speed based training program. To achieve the purpose of the study forty (N-40) inter collegiate men football players were randomly selected from Government Engineering College Thrissur and they were divided into two equal groups (n-15) namely experimental and control group, their age ranged between 18 and 25year. Speed and agility were assessed by standard tests (speed -50m Dash and agility 4*10m shuttle run). Experimental group was undergone speed based training for a period of twelve weeks. The results revealed that there was a significant improvement found on speed and agility of inter collegiate men football players due to systematic speed based training.

DOI: 10.33545/27077012.2021.v2.i2a.235

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