A Comparative Study Of Plyometric And Circuit Training On Agility And Strength In Badminton Players: An Experimental Study

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Badminton is amongst the world’s most popular racquet games, challenging motor aids such as agility and vertical jump mainly for hitting a shuttle. Agility refers to the capacity to change the direction of the physique quickly. Strength denotes the skill of the muscles to produce energy with a solitary utmost exertion and is a vital component of aptness and performance. Plyometric is the term given for a type of workout that is planned to increase intensity or explosive control in certain muscle groups. Circuit drill is a way to train with limited equipment including series of stations including variations between different muscle groups for lower limb exercises.

AIM: To check the effectiveness of plyometric and circuit drill training over agility and strength in Badminton Players of Chandigarh University

MATERIAL AND METHOD: The research includes Badminton Players of Chandigarh University by use of simple random sampling. Only male subjects were included in my study those who were eligible according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. SEMO agility test was used to quantify agility and the Vertical jump test was used to quantify the strength of the lower limb at a baseline value,6 weeks of plyometric and circuit training was provided to Group A and Group B, and further readings were obtained at the end of 6^th week.

RESULT: Unpaired and paired t-tests were used to compare means between two groups and within groups. Results were measured to be significant as p<0.05. There is improvement in both agility and strength within the group as the value for agility p=0.001 and value post strength training p=0.083 hence a significant difference was found only in the agility group for between the group comparison. In the Plyometric group, for agility, at baseline and end of the 6^th week, t-value= 13.78 and associated significant value p=0.000. For strength, at baseline and end of 6^th week, t-value=-10.298 and associated significant value p=0.000.

In Circuit training group, for agility, at baseline and end of the 6^th week, t-value= 12.894 and associated significant value p=0.000. For strength, at baseline and end of 6^th week, t-value=-7.669 and associated significant value p=0.000.

The result shows that there is a significant difference found within groups for all the variables at baseline and end of the 6^th week with p=0.000 (p<0.05). So, improvement was seen in both the Plyometric and circuit groups at the end of the training session

CONCLUSION: It can be clinched from the results that there was substantial difference found in agility performance after the circuit training protocol and strength performance after the plyometric training protocol. There is a noteworthy difference found within the group for both circuit training and plyometric training groups over agility and strength performance.