The effect of upper body plyometric training program on young women volleyball players in their usual training program
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The study was to find out the effect of upper body plyometric training program on young women volleyball player’s hand grip strength and upper body explosive power in their usual training program. For this study, twenty-four female volleyball players were selected as the participants and they randomly allocated to either experimental group or control group. The experimental group had 8 weeks of training program along with their usual training and control group had not special training. Training effects were analysed by independent t-tests. The significance level was set at .05. Notable improvements in HG and UBES were recorded in post values of between the experimental and control group. [HG: t (11) = -4.020, p < .001], [UBES: t (11) = -3.213, p = .004]. Conversely no significant improvements in HG and UBES were recorded in pre values of between the experimental and control group. [HG: t (11) = -0.954, p = .350), UBES: t (11) = 0.439, p = .665] in performance of both variables. The study concluded that upper body plyometric training program can effective modality for enhancing hand grip strength and upper body explosive power on young women volleyball players.
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