Effect of small sided handball game on aerobic capacity and repeated sprint ability of male handball players

Authors : Balasubramanian CHITTIBABU

Pages : 22-27

Doi:10.15314/tjse.00546

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Publication Date : 2014-10-11

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of four and eight weeks small-sided handball game on aerobic capacity and repeated sprint ability of male handball players. Sixteen insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(16); male university handball players volunteered to act as subjects and were randomly assigned to small-sided handball game group insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(SSHG); and control group insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(CG);.  Small-sided handball game was administered three days in a week for eight weeks. Subjects were measured on aerobic capacity, total sprint time and fatigue index on three occasions first before administration of training as pre-test, after four weeks of training as mid test and after eight weeks of training as post-test. A two-way repeated measure ANOVA with last factor repeated revealed that aerobic capacity, total sprint time and fatigue index improved insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.05);. Aerobic capacity showed an improvement of 4.75% after four weeks and 8.83% % after eight weeks of small-sided handball game training in male handball players. Similarly, total sprint time and fatigue index also decreased 4.19% and 34.9 % only after eight weeks of training but after four weeks no changes is observed. This study shows that small-sided handball game insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(4 vs. 4); is effective in improving aerobic capacity in four and eight weeks of training but total sprint time and fatigue index elicited changes only after eight weeks.
Keywords : Aerobic capacity, fatigue index, handball, small sided game, university

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