Effectiveness of 6 Weeks Plyometric Training on Agility Among University Male Students.

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Plyometrics is a kind of exercise training that focuses on increasing muscular power by varying the pace and force of various motions. Plyometrics training can help you enhance your physical performance and ability to do a variety of tasks. Pushups, throwing, sprinting, leaping, and kicking are just a few examples of plyometric activities. Plyometrics are commonly used by athletes, although these routines may be done by anybody. Plyometrics are used by people in physical therapy after an accident or injury to get back into form and physical function. Speed, explosive power, coordination, and particular sports skills may all be improved with agility training. Agility training routines can benefit players of all levels, from high school to professional sports teams. Include these drills in your training regimen a few times a week to improve your foot speed and sports technique.

Detailed Description
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The ability of the neuromuscular and musculoskeletal systems to generate force at a specific velocity, in a particular direction, appears to be critical for many sports that involve sprinting, jumping and throwing. In light of the above, plyometric training can be used to enhance the ability of skeletal muscle to exert maximal force in as short a time as possible. Plyometric training typically includes various unilateral and bilateral jumps, hops and bounds with coaches often prescribing these in a multidirectional fashion to reflect the unpredictable nature of field and court sports. The rationale of this approach is founded on the well-accepted principle that adaptations to vertically (VPT) and horizontally orientated PT will transfer better to athletic tasks that are carried out in the same direction as they are performed. Plyometric consists of a rapid stretching of a muscle (eccentric action) immediately followed by a concentric or shortening action of the same muscle and connective tissue, the stored elastic energy within the muscle is used to produce more force than can be provided by a concentric action alone. Though aerobic capacity is important during a soccer game high-intensity single-bout efforts also play an important role for physical performance. in this sense, aside from endurance activity, female soccer players must also perform numerous explosive action including jumping, kicking, accelerating, decelerating and changing of direction, with most of these preceding goal opportunities in competitive leagues. specifically, the straight sprint (45%) followed by vertical jumps (16%) have shown to be the two most frequent actions in goal situations during professional soccer matches. Studies also suggest that changes in motor performance skills resulting from the performance of combined resistance training and plyometric training are greater than with either type of training alone. Six weeks of combined resistance training and plyometric training would lead to greater improvements in fitness performance in healthy boys than resistance training and static stretching. Plyometric training has been proposed for the development of explosive power performance and specifically for the improvement of vertical jump ability. he main finding of this study was the improvement of either vertical- and horizontal jump performance in basketball players as a consequence of a multipurpose plyometric training intervention.

Official Title
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Effectiveness of 6 Weeks Plyometric Training on Agility Among University Male Students.

Conditions
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Sports Physical Therapy

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Intervention
* Other: Control Group


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Students will be selected that have spent at least one year BMI (18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2) Only male students will be included Exclusion Criteria: Students undergone surgery or had accident within last 6 months. Should not involve in any plyometric technique before and at the time of study Students involved in any other exercise plan Not willing students

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 19 Years
Maximum Age: 25 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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Male

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Active Comparator: Control group<br>Control group will follow their daily routine activities. | Other: Control Group<br>* Control group will follow their daily routine activities and may involve in any other exercise program rather than plyometric exercises.<br>|
| Experimental: Experimental group<br>Interventional group will receive 6 weeks of plyometric training and receive training for week and three sessions in a week. | Other: Intervention<br>* Interventional group will receive 6 weeks of plyometric training and receive training for week and three sessions in a week.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| T test | In T test players have to run 40 yards and time will be noted in seconds. Rating starts from >11.5 seconds (poor) to <9.5 seconds (excellent). | 6th day | 
| Illinois agility test | Player have to run about 60 meters and time will be noted in seconds with rating poor >18.8 seconds and excellent <15.9 seconds. | 6th day | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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T test,, Ilinois agility test,, Plyometric training