EFFECT OF S.A.Q TRAINING ON VITAL CAPACITY AMONG HOCKEY PLAYERS

BACKGROUND: The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of S.A.Q training on vital capacity among Hockey players. METHOD: For the present study 30 male hockey players from Dr. Sivanthi Aditanar College of Engineering, Tiruchendur, Tamilnadu were selected at random and their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. For the present study pre test – post test randomized group design which consists of control group and experimental group was used. The subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups of fifteen each and named as Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’. Group ‘A’ underwent S.A.Q training and Group ‘B’ underwent no training. The data was collected before and after six weeks of training. The data was analyzed by applying Dependent‘t’ test to find out the effect of S.A.Q training programme. The level of significance was set at 0.05. RESULT: The findings of the present study have strongly indicates that S.A.Q training of six weeks has significant effect on Vital Capacity of Hockey players. Hence the hypothesis earlier set that S.A.Q training would have been significant effect on Vital Capacity in light of the same the hypothesis is accepted.