Effect of progressive resistance and plyometric training on body composition parameters among adolescent boys

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of progressive resistance training and plyometric training groups on selected body composition parameters among adolescent boys. To achieve the purpose of the study, sixty (60) adolescent boys were selected randomly as subjects from the St. Francis. Higher Secondary School, Vavarai, Tamil Nadu, India. The selected subjects were randomly assigned into one of three groups of twenty (n=20) each, such as group I underwent progressive resistance training, group II underwent plyometric training and Group III control group who was asked to refrain from any special training except their leisure time pursuit. The duration of training period for 12 weeks and the number of sessions per week was confined to three alternative days, in addition to the regular schedule of the curriculum. The independent variables were progressive resistance training and plyometric training and the dependent variables such as body weight, BMI, Percent body fat were selected for this study. The standardized tests were used to collect relevant data on the selected dependent variables such as weighing machine, BMI method by using peters formula and skin fold caliper respectively. The collected data from the three groups prior to and immediately after the training programme on selected criterion variables were statistically analyzed with dependent ‘t’ test to find out the significant improvement between pre and post- test means of both groups. The level of significance was fixed at .05 levels, which was considered to be appropriate.