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The study was carried out to identify the effect of Plyometric training on selected physical and psychological variables among the male academic respondents in tiruchirappalli. Materials and Methods: To achieve the purpose of the study, thirty male respondents were selected from Rock fort Star Athletic Academic in Trichy district, Tamil Nadu state. The age ranged between 18 to 23 years. The subjects (N=30) were randomly selected and divided into two groups. The experimental group (N=15) underwent plyometric training during morning hours weekly three days over six weeks. The control group (N=15) was left out from the training. The criterion variables selected for this study were physical variable as Explosive Power and psychological variables such as Aggression. The following standardized test items and questionnaire were used to assess the dependent physical variable such as Vertical Jump and psychological variables such as Smith aggression. Results: The data were collected before and the after experimental period. The data pertaining to the variable for this study were examined by using analysis covariance (ANCOVA). The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 levels for all the cases. Conclusions: The result of the study revealed that there was a significant improvement on selected physical variables such as standing board jump and psychological variable such as smith aggression level decrease to improve the higher level of performance of experimental group due to the influence of plyometric training when compared to control group of criterion variables.