The purpose of the study was designed to examine the effect of super circuit training on breath holding time and resting pulse rate among college men students.  For the purpose of the study, thirty men students from the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Annamalai University were selected as subjects.  They were divided into two equal groups.  each group consisted of the fifteen subjects.  Group I underwent super circuit training for three days per week for twelve weeks.  Group II acted as control who did not undergo any special training programme apart from their regular physical education programme. The following variables namely breath holding time and resting pulse rate were selected as criterion variables.  All the subjects of two groups were tested on selected dependent variables at prior to and immediately after the training programme. The analysis of covariance was used to analyze the significant difference, if any among the groups. The .05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the ‘F’ ratio obtained by the analysis of covariance, which was considered as an appropriate. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between super circuit training group and control group on breath holding time and resting pulse rate. And also it was found that there was a significant improvement on selected criterion variables such as breath holding time and resting pulse rate due to super circuit training.

KEYWORDS : SUPER CIRCUIT TRAINING, BREATH HOLDING TIME AND RESTING PULSE RATE