Effect of aqua aerobic training and battalion training on physical physiological and psychological variables among volleyball players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of aqua aerobic training and battalion training on physical physiological and psychological variables among volleyball players. To achieve the purpose of this study, 90 school students were randomly selected as subjects from various schools of Bikaner District, Rajasthan State, India. Their age ranged between 13-15 years. The total strength will be divided into 3 different training groups of 30 players each. i.e experimental Group -I acted as Aqua aerobic exercises group, experimental Group -II acted as Battalion Training and Group – III acted Control group did not participated any specific training programme. Group-I, the Aqua aerobic training programme has undergone 3 alternative days a week for 12 weeks of training the training days are Monday, Wednesday & Friday between 7.00 am to 8.45 am. Group ‘II’ the Battalion Training programme undergone 3 alternative days a week12 weeks of training the training days are Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday between 7.00 am to 8.45 am. To fix the training load for Battalion Training group the subjects were examined for their Exercise hear rate in response to different work outs. The data on selected physiological and psychological variables such as expiratory reserve volume, inspiratory reserve volume, tidal volume and vital capacity were collected and administering by wet spirometer test. The pre and posttests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior to and immediately after the training programme. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the dependent-‘t’ test and Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) for each and every selected variable separately. It was concluded that the aqua aerobics training group had shown significantly improved in selected physiological and psychological variables. However, the battalion training group had not shown any significant improvement on any of the selected physiological and psychological variables such as expiratory reserve volume and inspiratory reserve volume, tidal volume and vital capacity. Keywords: Aqua Aerobics, Expiratory Reserve Volume, Inspiratory Reserve Volume, Tidal Volume, Vital Capacity.