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The purpose of the present investigation was to find out the effects of ladder training on agility, explosive power and speed among college men. To achieve the purpose of this study, twenty-four men students studying in St. Johns College, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli were selected randomly as participants. The participants were divided into two groups namely ladder training (experimental) group and control group of twelve (n=12) participants each. The experimental group underwent ladder training for six weeks of three sessions per week. The second group acted as control, which was not engaged in any special activities other than their regular curricular activities during the period of training. Among the physical variables the following variables was selected as criterion variables namely agility, and explosive power. All the participants were tested on selected criterion variables prior to and immediately after the training period. Agility, explosive power and speed test was assessed by seconds and coordination was assess by in number. The collected data were analyzed statistically by using dependent 't' test to determine the differences if any among the group prior to and immediately after the training period on selected criterion variables separately. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to determine the differences, if any among the adjusted posttest means on selected dependent variables separately. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level of confidence, which was considered as appropriate. The experimental group namely the ladder training group has achieved significant improvement on agility and explosive power. Significant differences were found among ladder training group towards improving the selected criterion variables such as agility, and explosive power.