Physical And Functional Effects Of Skill-Specific Training Regimens In Youth Football Training Programs
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Purpose: Football is a very fascinating and enjoyable game and every child wants to play it. The only problem in the beginning is that because of wrong technique of the lack of basic skills, there is fear of injury and frustration in preparation for higher performance. The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of position wise specific skill Training on physical and functional variables of School level football players.
Material and Methods: The research was carried out on a sample of sixty sub junior school players. The pretests were conducted for all subjects on all selected variables to collect data. All subjects were divided randomly in to three groups as experimental group (twenty). The forward specific skill training group (FSST) (n=20) (Age: 15.1±0.9, Height 148 ± 3.8, Weight 50 ± 2.4), Midfielder specific skill training group (MSST) (n=20) (Age: 15.9±1.9, Height 154 ± 2.8, Weight 47 ± 1.4), Defender specific skill training group (DSST) (n=20) (Age: 14.9±0.9, Height 152 ± 3.8, Weight 49 ± 2.4) and their aged from 14-17 years. The training program was performed sixty minutes per day, 3 days per week for a period of twelve weeks. All selected physical and functional variables were assessed by standard tests; speed by 50 meter dash, leg explosive power through standing broad jump and Vo2 Max by cooper test. The twelve week position wise specific skill training was conducted followed by post-test for all selected variables. The results of analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) indicated that the experimental group had shown significant improvement over the all selected variables.
Results: Hence, the results showed that the position wise specific skill training group significantly (p=0.00) improved in physical and functional variables.
Conclusion: The position wise specific skill training program appears to be an effective way of improving physical and functional variables of school level football players. So soccer coaches and physical education teachers as well as others involved in coaching one or other game can make use of this information in the process of planning their training program.
