The purpose of the study was to find out the isolated and combined efficacy of aerobic interval training and high intensity resistance training on aerobic power among college men. To achieve the purpose of the present study, eighty college men were selected from Salem district, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 17 to 20 years. The subjects were divided into four equal groups of twenty subjects each. Group I acted as Experimental Group I (Aerobic Interval Training), Group II acted as Experimental Group II (High Intensity Resistance Training), Group III acted as Experimental Group III (Combined Training) and Group IV 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. Pre test was conducted for all the subjects on aerobic power. This initial test scores formed as pre test scores of the subjects. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the eighty subjects were tested on their aerobic power. 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 significance was fixed to test hypotheses. In comparing the combined training group and other groups on aerobic power, from the obtained f-ratios, it was observed that combined training group showed better performance on aerobic power than the other groups.

Key words:  Aerobic Interval Training, High Intensity Resistance Training, Aerobic power, College Men Players.