Influence of Conventional Training Programme Combined with Ladder Training on Selected Physical Fitness and Skill Performance Variables of College Level Badminton Players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of conventional training programme combined with ladder training on selected physical fitness and skill performance variables of college level badminton players. For this study twenty four men Intercollegiate badminton players were randomly selected from various colleges from Coimbatore city, Tamil Nadu. They belonged to the age group of 17 to 28 years and they were divided into two equal groups namely, the experimental group I (Conventional training programme- CT) and the experimental group II (Conventional training combined with ladder training-CTLT). The subjects were tested to find out Speed, Agility, Long serve and Forehand Clear. The experimental group I participated in conventional training programme and experimental group II participated in conventional training combined with ladder training for the period of twelve weeks. The data were collected before and after the training period and the pretest, posttest and the adjusted posttest were analyzed by Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The level of significance for the study was chosen as 0.05. The study revealed that the above said criterion variables had significant improvement due to the influence of Conventional training combined with ladder training than the Conventional training programme of college level badminton players.