Effect of Concurrent Neuromuscular Training and Football Game Practice on Agility

The purpose of study was to find out the effect of concurrent neuromuscular training and football game practice on agility. To achieve the purpose of the study, forty five school boys who actively participate the physical activity from Alagappa Physical Fitness Academy, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, were selected as subject at random. Their age group range between 11 to 12 years. The study was formulated as pre and post-test random group design, in which forty five subjects were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n=15, NMTbFGP) underwent neuromuscular training before football game practice, the experimental group-2 (n=15, NMTaFGP) underwent neuromuscular training after football game practice and group 3 served as a control group (n=15, CG). The agility was selected as criterion variable. It was measured by 4x10 meters shuttle run test. The selected two treatment groups were performed five days in a week for the period of six weeks, as per the stipulated training program. The nature of agility was tested before and after the training period. The collected pre and post data was critically analyzed with apt statistical tool of one way analysis of co-variance, for observed the significant adjusted post-test mean difference of three groups. The Scheffe’s post hoc test was used to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups. To test the hypothesis 0.05 level of significant was fixed. The study proved that both treatment groups have statistically produced significant effect of agility.