EFFECT OF CIRCUIT TRAINING AND INTERVAL TRAINING ON VITAL CAPACITY AND VO2 MAX IN BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of circuit training and interval training on Vital capacity and VO2 Max in Basketball players. To achieve this purpose, 45 women badminton players were randomly selected subject from Punjabi University, Patiala, India and their age ranges between 18 to 25 years. The selected subjects were divided into two experimental groups and a control group with 15 subjects in each group. Experimental group I (CTG=15) underwent circuit training, Group II (ITG=15) underwent interval training and Group III served as control group (CG=15). During the training period the two experimental groups’ underwent their respective training program for 12 weeks (4 days/ week) and the training programs were given about from 20 to 30 minutes per day. Physiological analyses were done on Vital capacity and VO2 max to find out the significant effect of after training on Basketball  players. The data collected from the three groups before and after the experimental training period were statistically examined to find out the significant improvement using the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The significant the level of confidence was fixed at 0.05. Hence, it was concluded that circuit training and interval training have significant positive increase on Vital capacity and VO2 max level.