CHANGES OF AGILITY AND MENTAL SKILLS THROUGH AEROBIC AND MENTAL TRAINING

Abstract

This study examined the effects of aerobic training and mental training on agility and mental skills among college male Volleyball players from Alagappa University College of Physical Education, karaikudi. The selected subjects were randomly assigned into three groups of ten each such as three experimental groups namely aerobic exercise group (Group-I), mental training group (Group-II) and combined(Aerobic & Mental)  training group (Group-III).The experimental group I (n=10) underwent aerobic training, group II (n=10) underwent mental training and group underwent combined (Aerobic & Mental) training for 45 minutes in three alternate days (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) during morning session for eight weeks. The dependent variables namely mental skills was assessed by conducting Hardly Nelson mental skills test questionnaire and agility was measured by conducting the shuttle run test. The data were collected from each subject before and after the training period and statistically analyzed by paired sample‘t’ test which was used to find out the significant improvement on selected criterion variables and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant differences, if any among the adjusted post test means of experimental groups on each variables separately. Whenever, the obtained F-ratio for adjusted post test means was found to be significant, the Scheffe’s test was applied as post hoc test to determine which of the paired mean differences were significant. All the cases 0.05 level of confidence was fixed as a level of confidence to test the hypotheses. It was concluded that combined training group is found to be better than aerobic and mental training groups on agility and mental skills variables among college male Volleyball players.