EFFECT OF SELECTED PHYSICAL EXERCISE ON MUSCULAR FITNESS AND AGILITY FOR U-17 MALE FOOTBALL TRAINEES OF BURAYU TOWN, OROMIYA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

This research was conducted to find out the effect of Selected Physical Exercises on Muscular Fitness and Agility for U-17 male football Trainees of Burayu Town.Informal expermental design were used.Pre and post test with out control group.From population of 150 trainees 30 trainees were selected as study subjects by using simple random sampling techniques.They participated in low, moderate and high intensity of selected physical exercise for 12 consecutive weeks , frequency of 3 days per week 40-- 60 minute duration per session.The selected physical fitness variables are muscular endurance, muscular strength and Agility. The data collected from the study subjects were analyzed using SPSS version 24 software. The data pertaining to those selected physical fitness variables were analyzed by Paired sample ‘t’ test to determine the significant differences between initial and final mean for study subjects. According to analyzed data in push up 9.26 ,in sit up 11.93 and in Illinois test 4.13 mean deffernce were observed after putting the subjects for 12 weeks on selected physical exercises.The result indicates that there were significant improvement.From this finding , it can be concluded that low ,moderate and high intensity physical exercise have positive effects on enhancement of muscular endurance, strength and Agility of U-17 male football Trainees of Burayu Town.Therefor,selected physical exercise are recommended to U-17 male football trainees of Burayu town for improving their muscular fitness and agility performances.