Impacts of Pressure Training Intervention with Yogic Practices on Ability of Kicking and Self-Confidence among Football Players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the impacts of pressure training with yogic practices on ability of kicking and self-confidence among football players. Forty out of handball players were randomly selected from Coimbatore district, selected players were divided into two groups consisting of 20 football players. No attempt was made equate the groups. The age of the subjects ranged between 18 to 23 years. The influence of the pressure training with yogic practice was assessed on fitness. The training load was increased from the maximum working capacity of the subject doing pilot study. The study was formulated as pre and post-test random group design, in which forty were divided into two equal groups. The experimental group-1(n=20) underwent Pressure training and group -2 served as control group (n=20). In this study, only one training program were adopted as independent variables and ability of kicking and self-confidence was selected as dependent variable and it was tested by warner soccer skill test, performance was recorded in points and self-confidence was tested by CSAI-II Inventory was recorded in scoring. The training period of this intervention 6 days in a week for twelve weeks. The collected pre and post data was critically analyzed with dependent‘t’ test. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 levels for all the cases in order to find out the significance. The result clearly proved that the pressure training demonstrated better improvement on ability of kicking and self-confidence and self-confidence.