Development of Explosive Power to Students with Specific Means of Volleyball Game

AbstractDevelopment of explosive power to students in medicine field represents a challenge for teachers, which leads us to address this issue through a study highlighting the importance of playing volleyball in achieving these goals. The purpose of this research is to follow and to establish a methodological system of operating, with specific means of voleyball game and implementation this in academic teaching activities in physical training, in order to develop the driving ability in general and of explosive power in particular. The research was performed on two groups of students. The experimental group is made of 44 (female) students, I-st year, at Medicine Faculty. The control group is made of 51 (female) students, I-st year, at at Medicine Faculty. The research has been made within October 1st, 2013 – February 28, 2014. For experimental group, the process of teaching activities consisted of introducing in physical training, some elements and technical procedures belonging to voleyball game. For control group, in order to develop the explosive power, it has been operating exclusively with specific means belonging to other sport branches, than voleyball. For measuring the explosive power it has been used the standing long jump. Research methods used in the present study, were the following: self observation method, observation method, psychological and pedagogical experiment, communication method, documents research method, organizing and presenting data, statistical graphs, determination of statistical indices, comparing/reporting. Due to experimental intervention, values of explosive power registered at final test of Experimental group, increased significantly compared to initial test executed at the beginning of first semester of academic year 2013/2014. By analizing the results of the research, we can issue the conclusion that, the voleyball game may represent an alternative mean of developing the explosive power to students. Due to that, we reccomend using the academic teaching activities in physical training, of sports games in general and voleyball in particular