Importance of vacation fitness training programme on muscular strength and explosive power among the elementary school students

Vacation fitness training improves certain physical variables, especially the muscular strength and explosive power; these variables have a major role for the better performance of different sports and games. The purpose of the study was to examine the importance of vacation fitness training programme on muscular strength and explosive power among the elementary school students. To achieve the purpose of the study forty school level boys were randomly selected from Inspire Football Academy and different schools in Mundakayam, Kerala and their age ranged from 12 to 15 years. The subjects were divided into two groups of twenty each; group I underwent the fitness training programme for six weeks – per day ninety minutes and four days in a week. The group II acted as a control group and was not given any exposure and kept under control. The selected criterion variables are muscular strength and explosive power assessed before and after the training period. The data were statistically analyzed with covariance (ANCOVA). The results reveal that the six-week fitness training programme had significantly increased the muscular strength and explosive power among elementary school students.