2025/11/04 by Dare, Ajibola, Salaam, Abass, Adeniran, Adebisi Olayemi
Health Professions · Medicine · #Explosive Power #Handball #Muscular Endurance #Muscular Strength #Sports Performance and Training #Sports and Physical Education Research #Sports injuries and prevention #Strength Training Program
paper · doi:10.60787/eaued-jms.vol1no2.16
openalex publication_date 2025/11/04 · openalex created_date 2025/11/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a 12-week strength training programme on the muscular fitness of handball players in Lagos state. The two-group pre-test post-test research design was used for this study. The population for this study consisted of all handball players in the Lagos State. A total of twenty (20) handball players were first selected through a purposive sampling technique. Next, a stratified sampling technique was used to group the hand ballers equally into two groups by gender before they were selected randomly using the fish-bowl method without replacement into two groups. Ten (10) handballers (5 males and 5 females) formed the final treatment group that went through the 12-week strength training program. Ten (10) hand ballers (5 males and 5 females) also formed the final control group. The instruments used for this study are standardized instruments. A pilot study was carried out among 10 basketball players in the Lagos State. The twenty (20) handball athletes were measured based on the selected muscular fitness variables (muscular strength, muscular endurance and explosive power). These variables were measured for both groups. After which only the handball athletes in the treatment group went through 12 weeks of strength training programme. The coaches also served as assistants to implement the training programme for this study. After this, the same variables (muscular strength, muscular endurance and explosive power) were measured among the handballers in both the treatment and control groups. Data collected was recorded on a record sheet. Data from the measurement collected was analyzed using the descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation. While the stated hypotheses were tested using the inferential statistics of t-test and the Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) at a 0.05 level of significance. Results indicated that twelve-week strength training program had a significant effect on the muscular strength, muscular endurance and the explosive power of handball players in Lagos state. However, there were no significant gender differences in the effect of 12-week strength training programmed on the muscular fitness (strength, endurance and power) of handball players in Lagos state.