The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of resistance training on selected physiological variables among college volleyball players. It was hypothesized that there would be significant differences on selected physiological variables due to the effect of resistance training among college volleyball players. For the present study the 30 male college volleyball players from Selvam College of Physical Education, Namakkal, Tamilnadu were selected at random and their age ranged from 18 to

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... 25 years. For the present study pre test-post test random group design which consists of control group and experimental group was used. The subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups of fifteen each and named as Group 'A' and Group 'B'. Group 'A' underwent resistance training and Group 'B' has not undergone any training. The data was collected before and after six weeks of training. The data was analyzed by applying dependent 't test. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The resistance training had positive impact on systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and resting pulse rate among college volleyball players.