Abstract:
The purpose of the present study was to find out the effect of ‘’Concurrent Training
combined with Selected Nutritional Design on Selected Physical Fitness componenets of
Male Football Players of Nekemte Kenema B Group’’. To achieve the purpose of this study,
28 male football players of Nekemte kemena were selected by using census sampling
technique and their age ranged from 20 to 24. The subjects were underwent twelve weeks of
concurrent training combined with selected nutritional design for three days per week with
duration of 70 minutes. Subjects of were tested on selected criterion measures namely,
selected componenets of physical fitness tests like explosive strength (vertical jump test),
endurance (12 min cooper test) and body composition (BMI) variables prior to and after the
12 weeks consmuption of nutrional design combined with training period. The data
collected from the participants pre and post-test were statistically examined to find out the
significant improvement by using SPSS version 20, descriptive and paired t-test. In all
cases, the criteria for statistical significance were set at (P≤0.05). The results showed that
there was significant improvement on the selected physical fitness componenets; explosive
strength (power), endurance and body composition variables of male subjects. The
differences recorded for the performance characteristics of selected componenets of
physical fitness showed better improvements on vertical jump, Vo2max and BMI. It was
concluded that concurrent training combined with nutritional design of 12 weeks for male
football players of Nekemte kenema achieved better fitness performance on selected Concurrent training, Nutrition, Endurance, Body composition
