Football requires high-intensity skilled movements like strength, power, speed, agility, and kicking for efficient performance and in football, short pre-seasons and limited games necessitate short training protocols to maximise results, ensuring effective preparation for athletes. The study aimed to compare the effect of plyometric training and sprint training on reactive agility, kicking speed and sprint speed in football players. In this study a total of 30 participants were recruited and divided into Group A – Plyometric training (PT) (n = 15) and Group B – Sprint training (ST) (n = 15). Both groups received two weeks of intervention for three days a week. For between the group comparison reactive agility showed significant increase in both the groups post intervention (
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Football requires high-intensity skilled movements like strength, power, speed, agility, and kicking for efficient performance and in football, short pre-seasons and limited games necessitate short training protocols to maximise results, ensuring effective preparation for athletes. The study aimed to compare the effect of plyometric training and sprint training on reactive agility, kicking speed and sprint speed in football players. In this study a total of 30 participants were recruited and divided into Group A – Plyometric training (PT) (n = 15) and Group B – Sprint training (ST) (n = 15). Both groups received two weeks of intervention for three days a week. For between the group comparison reactive agility showed significant increase in both the groups post intervention (
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