In their study, 30 female college athletes performed a neuromuscular training program before practice 6 days per week for 6 weeks. Chappell and Limpisvasti reported task-specific improvements in kinetic and kinematic parameters after participants completed the intervention. Interestingly, they also concluded that " Completion of a 6-week neuromuscular training program improved select athletic p...

Postactivation potentiation (PAP), an acute and temporary enhancement of muscular performance resulting from previous muscular contraction, commonly occurs after heavy resistance exercise. However, this method of inducing PAP has limited application to the precompetition practices (e.g., warm-up) of many athletes. Very few studies have examined the influence of plyometric activity on subsequent...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a strategic strength resistance exercise program on the isokinetic muscular function of the ankle joint. [Subjects] This study included 22 males in their twenties who were diagnosed with functional injury of the ankle joint. [Methods] To strengthen plantar flexion and dorsiflexion of the ankle joint, 8 weeks of weight, resist...

INTRODUCTION With regard to blood pressure responses to plyometric exercise and decreasing blood pressure after exercise (post-exercise hypotension), the influence of different workloads of plyometric exercise on blood pressure is not clear. AIM The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of a low, moderate and high workload of plyometric exercise on the post-exercise systoli...

Background: Badminton being one of the most popular and fastest racket sport, demands players to have different skills fitness level in-order excel. Skills like power, agility, speed, dynamic balance reaction time are few them. Aim: This study aims compare effect plyometric exercises versus speed agility quickness (SAQ) training on in badminton players. Methods: An experimental was conducted 36...

Plyometric research in the upper extremity is limited, with the effects of open-chain plyometric exercises being studied most. Kinematic and ground reaction force data concerning closed-chain upper extremity plyometrics has yet to be examined. Twenty-one recreationally active male subjects performed four variations of plyometric push-ups in a counterbalanced order. These included box drop push-...

BACKGROUND Hamstring injuries are the most common muscle injury in amateur and professional soccer. Most hamstring injuries occur in the late swing phase, when the hamstring undergoes a stretch-shortening cycle and the hamstring does a significant amount of eccentric work. The incidence of these injuries has not decreased despite there being effective injury prevention programmes focusing on im...