EFFECTS OF AEROBICS DANCE, MENTAL VISUALIZATION, AND SKILL-SPECIFIC DRILLS ON AGILITY BETWEEN SCHOOL LEVEL BADMINTON ATHLETES

Abstract

The objective of the research was to figure out the impact of aerobics dance, mental visualization, and skill-specific drills based on specified motor skill-related fitness variables (agility) among school-level badminton athletes. A total of eighty boys from the various schools from Chennai participated as the subjects for this study. The participants were chosen indiscriminately (simple random sample); they were assigned to four different groups, such as experimental groups I, II, and III and the non-treatment group. The study group I underwent aerobics dance (n=20); experimental group II underwent mental visualization (n=20); experimental group III underwent skill-specific drills (n=20); and group IV was the control group; they did not participate in any particular activity other than regular badminton training. The training program lasted for a period of 6 weeks, with 4 sessions per week. The dependent variable of the study was agility, and it was examined using the Illinois agility test. The following were the independent variables, such as aerobics dance, mental visualization, and skill-specific drills. In the experimental design, the pre-test and post-test selected group of control design was used. The pre- and post-data were obtained from 3 experimental groups along with the non-treatment group. Selected motor skill-related fitness variable agility had been statistically investigated by applying an analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) to determine the substantial distinction between the groups. When the F value for the adjusted the was statistically significant, pairwise comparisons among means were conducted using Scheffé’s post-hoc test, with the significance level fixed at 0.05 for hypothesis testing. The aerobics dance, mental visualization and skill-specific drills had considerably enhanced the experimental group participant’s agility. The skill-specific drills had greatly outperformed than aerobics dance and mental visualization on the participants agility.