Effect of Six Weeks Plyometric Training on Selected Performance Variables of High School Girls Handball Players

Abstract

Modern handball is played on a court 40 by 20 meters with a goal in the center of each end. The goals are surrounded by a 6-meter zone where only the defending goalkeeper is allowed the goals must be scored by throwing the ball from outside the zone or while "jumping" into it. Performance at optimal levels requires high levels of Training include technical, tactical, physiological and physical skills. Identification and selection of talented soccer players are not straightforward procedures. The collected data was analyzed by applying The statistical procedure of the selected performance related variables and the mean difference between the initial and final scores of experimental and control group were compared by using independent ‘t' test. The pre and post data pertaining to vertical jump test, push up test, sit and reach test, shuttle run test and fifty yard dash test was collected to find out the effects of six weeks of plyometric training on selected performance related variables of high school girl's handball players. The sport is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball and Czech handball which were more common in the past and beach handball also called sandball. The game is quite fast and includes body contact, as the defenders try to stop the attackers from approaching the goal. Goals are scored quite frequently; teams typically score between 20 and 35 goals each.The most conclusive evidence of handball in the past came from Denmark. Holger Nielsen introduced a game and set down the rules for a game, which was the starting point of Handball. The rules were finalized in 1897, and these rules form the basis of the rules used today. The forerunner to the International Handball Federation was founded in 1928, with the IHF replacing it in 1946. The first big international competition was the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, followed by the first Handball World Championships being played in 1938.