Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part D (2024)

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of circuit training with and without ladder training on selected motor fitness variables of high school handball players. To achieve the purpose of this study, sixty district level high school handball players were selected from, National Model Higher Secondary School, Peelamedu Trinity Metric Higher Secondary School Ramanathapuram, and S E S Metric Higher Secondary School Ganapati, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu. The subject’s age ranged from 14 to 15 years and they were divided into three equal groups namely circuit training group, circuit with ladder training group and control group. The circuit training group, circuit with ladder training group underwent training programme for the period of twelve weeks, and control group has not under gone any type of training. The data were collected before and after the training programme. The selected data was statistically analyzed by using analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA). The result of the study reveals that circuit training group and circuit with ladder training group was better than the control group and also circuit with ladder training group is better than the circuit training group on speed and agility of motor fitness variables.