A study of the effects of intensive interval training and fartlek training on selected physical and physiological variables of football players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of intensive interval newlineand fartlek trainings on selected physical and physiological parameter of newlineFootball school boys. To achieve the purpose of the study, forty five (n=45) newlineSchool Football players who played at District level were selected from newlineTirunelveli Educational District, Tamilnadu, India. The selected subjects were newlinerandomly assigned into three groups of fifteen (n=15) each, such as Group I newline(n=15) underwent intensive interval training, Group II (n=15) underwent newlinefartlek training for a duration of 12 weeks and the number of sessions per week newlinewas confined to three alternative days, in addition to the regular schedule of the newlinecurriculum and Group III (n=15) acted as control. The following dependent newlinevariables were selected for this study such as speed, speed endurance, muscular newlineendurance (Physical variables) and resting pulse rate, blood pressure and peak newlineflow rate (physiological variables). As per the available literatures, the newlinestandardized tests were used to collect relevant data on the selected dependent newlinevariables. The following independent variables were selected for this study newlinesuch as intensive interval training and fartlek training programmes. The pre and newlinepost test randomized control group design was used as experimental design. No newlineattempt was made to divide the groups in any manner. The collected data from newlinethe three groups prior to and immediately after the training programme on newlineselected criterion variables were statistically analyzed with dependent t test to newlinefind out the significant improvement between pre and post- test means of both newlinegroups and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the newlinesignificant difference between experimental and control groups. Whenever the newline F ratio for adjusted test was found to be significant, the Scheffe s test was newlineapplied as post-hoc test to find out paired mean difference. In all the cases 0.05 newlinelevel of significant was fixed to test the hypothesis. In conclusions, the newlineintensive interval training and fartlek