The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of assisted and resisted sprint training on Speed performance among college athlete in Andhra Pradesh. For the purpose of the study sixty(N=60) athletes studying various affiliated college to Sri Venkateswara University,  Tirupatti,  Andhra Pradesh state, India,  were randomly selected as subjects.  The subjects were assigned at random into four groups of fifteen each (n=15).  Group-I underwent Assisted Sprint Training (n=15), Group-II underwent Resisted Sprint Training (n=15), Group-III underwent combined Assisted and Resisted Sprint Training (n=15)and Group-IV acted as Control.  Speed only selected as a dependent variable and it was assessed by 50 meters sprint test. The Experimental groups underwent their respective training for 10 weeks duration. And the number of session was conformed into six days per week. All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the training for the selected variable. Data were collected and statistically analyzed using ANCOVA. Scheffe’s post hoc test was applied to determine the significant difference between the paired means. In all the cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed.  The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference among all the Experimental groups’ namely assisted training, resisted training and assisted and resisted training. Further the results showed combined assisted and resisted training group was found to have greater impact on the group concerned than the assisted training group, resisted training group and control group in enhancing the performance of Speed.

Keywords: Assisted Training, Resisted Training, Combined Training, Speed