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Ladder drills are instrumental in improving foot speed, agility, coordination, and overall quickness, which are crucial for the rapid directional changes inherent in Kho-Kho. Plyometric exercises, characterized by explosive movements, augment muscular power and speed-strength, enabling players to execute swift offensive and defensive maneuvers. In order to assess the real facts the investigator made an attempt to examine the impact of combined ladder and plyometric training on physiological and skill performance variables of twenty Kho-Kho players were selected from Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu state. They were age ranged between 14 to 17 years. Treatment group I underwent combined ladder with plyometric, group II acted as control group. All forty subjects were inducted for pre and posttest on physiological and skill performance variables are (vital capacity and cover of attack). The ladder with plyometric training programme was given to the experimental group for 3 days per week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) for the period of eight weeks. The control group was not given any sort of training except their routine work. The physiological variables vital capacity (wet spirometer test) cover of attack was assessed by Khelo India Fitness Test were assessed before and after training period. The result from 't' test and inferred that 8 weeks ladder with plyometric training treatment produced identical changes over physiological and skill performance variables of kho kho players. Further, the findings confirmed the ladder with plyometric training is suitable protocol to bring out the desirable changes over vital capacity and cover of attack variables of kho kho players.