2024, Vol. 11, Issue 4, Part A

An agility ladder is a piece of equipment commonly used to increase the agility of an athlete. The ladder is placed on the ground where it can be used for a number of different drills and exercises. Some of these drills include the hop-scotch, in-out and tango drills. An agility ladder is often made from flexible material in order to avoid injuries caused by the athlete being tripped on the rungs. When laid on the ground the agility ladder creates a piece of exercise equipment that requires the user to quickly move his or her feet in between the rungs with precise coordination. Unlike a typical handyman's ladder the rungs of the ladder are usually not wide or deep and are often made of rope to avoid injuries while building conditioning agility and eye-to-foot coordination. The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of ladder training on selected physical and physiological variables among school men athletes. To achieve the purpose of the present study 30 men students were selected as samples from Cheran. Hr. Sec. School, Punnam Chathiram, Karur, Tamilnadu, India. The age group is between 14 to 16 years. The selected subjects were divided in to two equal groups of each 15 namely experimental group and control group. The group I Ladder training for three days per week for six weeks, whereas the group II acted as control who maintained their daily routine activities and no special training was given to them. The following physical and physiological variables namely Speed, Explosive Power, Flexibility, Agility, Blood Pressure and Resting Heart Rate were selected as criterion variables. The measured by using 50 Meters Dash, Standing Broad Jump, T-Test and Sphygmomanometer test is used. The collected data were analyzed statistically through analysis of ‘t’ ratio to find out the significant difference, if any between the groups. The 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the level of significance which was considered as an appropriate. The results of the study showed that there were significant differences exist between ladder training group and control group on Speed, Explosive Power, Agility and Blood Pressure. And also ladder training group showed significant improvement on Speed, Explosive Power, Agility and Blood Pressure when compared to control group.