Background: Athletes’ flexibility and strength endurance improve through regular yoga practice. If plyometric exercises combine with asanas in training programs, it may enhance performance sports that demand these fitness components. Objectives: To determine the effect of eight weeks alone combination on adolescent volleyball players’ endurance. Methods: Forty-five male players were randomly se...

Non-sport-specific strength training is a way to increase endurance performance; however, which kind of exercise (maximal, plyometric, explosive or resistance training) gives the best results still under debate. Scientific publications were analyzed according PRISMA checklist and statement. The initial search yielded 500 studies, 17 included in this review using PEDro Scale. Maximal boosted abi...

The primary purpose of this paper was to provide insight into the effect of different training methods on sprinting time in male youth aged 8-18 years. Specific and nonspecific training methods were identified, the participants of the five teen studies categorized into pre, mid- and postpeak height velocity and effect sizes and percent changes calculated for each training method were appropriat...

Purpose: Despite the widespread use of cryotherapy in sports, there is no specific evidence its impact on muscle activation, especially following fatigue-induced exercises. This study aimed to assess alone and after plyometric exercises knee activation during drop jump task. Methods: A total 35 active female subjects (mean±SD age 22.74±2.10 years, mean body mass index [BMI] 20.02±2.55 kg/m2) pa...

This research aims to determine: (1) the effect of upper body and lower plyometric training models towards reaction time agility, (2) differences in age (17-20 years old 21-24 old) (3) interaction between plyometric, models, agility. was an experimental study. The design a "2x2 factorial" design. number samples were 20 muaythai athletes selected by purposive random sampling. To measure research...