The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of mini hurdles training with and without aerobic training on explosive power of field hockey players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, forty five women field hockey players from IIIT RGUKT, Andhra Pradesh, India were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 17 to 21 years. The subjects were divided into three equal groups of fifteen each. Group I acted as Experimental Group I (mini hurdles training with aerobic training ), Group II acted as Experimental Group II (mini hurdles training without aerobic training ) and Group III acted as Control Group. The requirement of the experiment procedures, testing as well as exercise schedule was explained to the subjects so as to get full co-operation of the effort required on their part and prior to the administration of the study. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the subjects were tested on their parameters. This final test scores formed as post test scores of the subjects. The pre test and post test scores were subjected to statistical analysis using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significance among the mean differences, whenever the ‘F’ ratio for adjusted test was found to be significant; Scheffe’s post hoc test was used. In all cases 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test hypotheses. The mini hurdles with aerobic training had shown significant improvement in explosive power among field hockey players after undergoing the training for a period of twelve weeks than other groups.

KEY WORDS: Mini Hurdles, Aerobic, Explosive power, Hockey.