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Abstract One hundred forty schoolboys belonging to the age of 12-17 years without having any participation in competition were selected randomly from different public schools of Delhi. Out of the target group of 140 students, 70 boys belonged to the age group of 12�14+ years and the rest 70 boys were in the of the age group of 15 � 17 years. In each age group, 35 boys formed the control group where as the remaining 35 boys formed the experimental group. After the pre test, the exercise training programme of 6 days a week and of one hour duration was administered to the subjects of the experimental groups and after five weeks mid test scores of all the four groups was recorded. Then again, the two experimental groups were administered exercise programme for another five weeks and the post test scores of all the four groups were recorded after ten weeks. The subjects of the control groups were instructed to do their routine works during this ten weeks period and were asked to appear only for the pre test, mid test and post test. The data collected was analyzed statistically to find out the differences in the pre, mid and post test scores of the subjects. The least significance difference test was applied to find the significance difference in the means of each group and for each variable. In the beginning there was no significant difference between the control and experiment groups in the two age groups i.e. 12-14+ yrs. and 15-17 yrs. In 12-14+ yrs. age group the agility of the subjects improved significantly only after 5 weeks of training. On the other hand, significant improvement was not found in the subjects of 15-17 yrs. of age group after 5 weeks of training. After 10 weeks of training significant improvement was observed between the subjects of experiment groups of both the age groups. In the 12-14+ yrs. of age group the means score decreased from 12.57 to 12.36 and in the other age group the means score reduced from 12.08 to 11.81 showing an improvement in the timing. The effect of exercise on agility of the subjects between the two age groups under study showed significant improvement in agility in all the levels of time intervals as the differences of means score were higher than the LSD values.