An Association between Explosive Strength and Agility of Physical Education Students (original) (raw)

Purpose:-The purpose of the study was to find out correlation between Explosive Strength, and Agility of physical education students. Methodology:-The subjects for this study were selected from Department of Physical Education, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur (C.G). A total of 40 male physical education students (B.P.Ed) were selected. Age of the subjects was ranging between 20 to 25 years. Selected Variables were Explosive Strength, and Agility. The selected variables were measured by different items of JCR test. To find out correlation between Explosive Strength, and Agility of physical education students, Product Moment Method of correlation was used. Findings:-There exists a significant relationship between Explosive Strength, and Agility of physical education students (r = .618, p < .05). Introduction In professional colleges of physical education, the curriculum has both theory and activity courses. The activity courses offer opportunities to the trainees which are structured around systematic routine of learning, practicing and training of various activities and games and sports. This routine puts lot of demands on the performance capacity of trainees especially the fresher bringing about a marked change in their physique, movement qualities, musculature etc. The primary objective of a course of study in physical education is to understand the nature and function of human movements in sports, dance, physical recreation and adopted movement activities. The competent professional should be well versed in the body of numerous sub disciplines (Kilen Kreighbavm and Ktharine M. Bartheless, 1985) [5]. Strength of muscle is necessary if one is to perform normal daily activities in an efficient manner. Strength is excess of this amount enables the student to perform them more easily an effectively. This excess over daily demands is needed for two reasons. First it is needed for emergency situations where survival is a factor, second, after daily normal activities are completed. The students should have sufficient strength to line life more fully and completely in leisure time pursuits. Strength can be measured by such test items as the chins, dips, pushups and standing broad jump (H. Harrison Clarke, 1976) [2]. Explosive Strength refers to the ability to exert strength or force as rapidly as possible in a given action (Siff). Explosive Strength is dependent on Rate of Force Development (RFD), which simply stated means the speed at which force can be produced (vpxsports.com). One of the most important factors influencing movement is agility, involved in coordinating quickly and accurately the big muscles of the body in a particular activity. These rapid changes in movement pattern by the whole body or by some of its parts have been measured by such test items as obstacle run, zig zag run, side step and squat thrust. One's level of agility is probably a result of both innate capacity and training and experience (Harold M. Barrow, Rosemary Mcgee. 1979) [3] .