The Effect of Concurrent Training on Physical Fitness of U-17 Male Football Project in Dilla Town
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concurrent training, speed, power and agilityAbstract
The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of concurrent training on physical fitness of U-17 male football players in Dilla Town. The researcher was used census sampling technique to select the sample of the study from Dilla U-17 male football project players. The age of the participants was range between 15 and 17 years old. The selected subjects were assigned in two groups of 12 experimental and 12 control groups randomly. The experimental groups were under go concurrent training program for the first 3 consecutive weeks (30minute and 3 days per week), for the second 3 consecutive weeks (40 minute and 4 days per week), and for the last 2 consecutive weeks 50 minute and 5 days per week for eight weeks, in addition to the training given by their coach. A pre and posttest were conducted on selected variables such as 30 m acceleration test, vertical jump test and Illinois agility test. The data was collected from pretest and posttest results and analyzed by descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (paired t-test and independent t-test) by using (SPSS) version 20. The results of the study showed that eight week programmed concurrent training was effective on selected subjects. In general, the researcher concludes that gradually increasing both intensity and duration of concurrent training within eight weeks intervention, statistically significance improvements and changes were observed in the players speed, power and agility.
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