Journal of African Development

The study sought to investigate the effect of treadmill and resistance training on selected motor fitness variables among hockey players. To achieve the purpose of the study (N=45) forty five  field hockey players were selected from Bharathidasan University, Tamilnadu, India as subjects. The age of the subjects ranged from 19 to 25 years. The selected subjects were divided into three equal groups (N=15). Group I underwent treadmill training. Group II underwent resistance training. Group III acted as control group who did not undergo any specialized training program other than their daily routine. The motor fitness variables such as coordination, balance, explosive power and cardiorespiratory endurance. Were selected as dependent variables and they were assessed by hand-eye coordination, stork balance test, standing broad jumps, cooper 12 min run/walk  respectively. The subjects were concerned with their particular training for a period of twelve weeks, three days per week. The collected data from three groups prior to and immediately after the training programme on selected criterion variables were statistically analyzed with analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 for all the cases to test the hypothesis. The result of the study reveals that the treadmill training and resistance training groups achieved significant improvement on selected motor fitness variables such as coordination, balance, explosive power, cardiorespiratory endurance of college field hockey players