Effects of In-Service Training Teaching Skills on Explosive Power and Flexibility of Rural and Urban Areas School Boys

Abstract

An attempt was made in the present study to examine the effects of in-service training on improving flexibility and muscular power of rural and urban area school boys. Participants of this study were 40 boys (n = 20) rural school students and (n = 20) urban school boys who had gone through the in-service training  and  planned to get involved in a long-term exercise program for improving the flexibility and explosive power of rural and urban school boys. Informed consent form and permission from the physicians of the students as well as from the medical center were obtained before the beginning of the study. An equal number of students from rural (n = 20) and urban (n = 20) students were randomly assigned to an experimental groups. The study lasted 12 weeks and consisted of a pretest, an intervention phase, and a posttest. On the pretest, each participant was required to take physical function tests on flexibility and explosive power. During the intervention phase, a modified In-service training program was offered by a well-trained instructor to the experimental group under the supervision of an investigator and a researcher at a school in salem district. Participants in the both group were involved in the In-service training program during the same time period. All participants were encouraged to continue their standard physical activities and routine care procedures. The intervention phase lasted 12 weeks and included 1-hour In-service training for five days in a week. During the period of intervention, the physical and health conditions of each participant were closely and regularly checked and monitored by a investigator. At the end of the 12-week intervention, a posttest with similar testing procedures to those of the pretest was administered to all participants. ‘t' test was measures on the test was used to examine differences in physical function variables between the two groups. Follow-up tests were conducted on any significant main or interaction effects. The results of the study revealed a significant group í— test interaction (p <0.001). Follow-up analyses indicated that while no group differences in explosive power and flexibility existed between the two groups on the pretest, the rural group was found to have significantly (p <0.05) better performance on the explosive power and flexibility tests than the urban school boys. The findings of the present study suggest that In-Service training enhances explosive power and flexibility of rural school boys.