The Purpose of This Study Was to Determine Whether or Not Functional Training Has Similar Effects on Muscular Strength, Flexibility, Agility, Speed and Anthropometric Measures in Basketball Players as Traditional Resistance Training

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Basketball has gained worldwide popularity and fascinated players and spectators with its dynamic characteristics as a team sport. This kind of sport is multifaceted that requires well-developed physical ﬁtness to be played successfully. Many authors have suggested that strength, power, agility, and speed are important performance related physical components for elite basketball players. The physical components require that fitness and conditioning attributes of basketball players are well developed to negate the limiting aspect of sport performance. Moreover, functional training is becoming increasingly popular within the fitness industry and has been considered to be a better alternative than traditional training methods for improving various measures of performance. The purpose of this study was to determine whether functional training has effects on performance and related various physical components of basketball players.

Official Title
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The Effects of Functional Training on Performance Related Physical Fitness Parameters in Professional Basketball Players

Conditions
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Basketball, Exercise

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Functional Training


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Participants must be professional basketball players Participants have not any upper or lower extremities injury during last 3 months Participants must implement age limits Exclusion Criteria: If participants who has; Surgery Musculoskeletal injuries Participants who transfer to another professional basketball team If participants who has; Systematic inflammatory diseases Neurological diseases Vascular conditions Alcohol abuse Psychiatric disorders

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 40 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: Treatment
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| No Intervention: Control Group<br>Control group followed routine basketball training and traditional strength training. | |
| Experimental: Training Group<br>Functional exercises were applied to training group for 20 weeks (2 days/week) with routine basketball training. | Other: Functional Training<br>* Functional training has been defined as emphasizing multiple muscle and joint activities, combining upper and lower body movements, and utilizing more of the body in each movement. The primary goal of functional training is to transfer improvement achieve in one movement to enhancing the performance of another movement by affecting the entire neuromuscular system.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| one repetition strength tests | maximal bench press and leg press tests | 20 weeks | 
| jump tests | standing broad jump and vertical jump | 20 weeks | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Speed Test | 20 meters speed test | 20 weeks | 
| Agility tests | T-Drill and Lane-Agility tests | 20 weeks | 
| Flexibility Test | Sit and reach test | 20 weeks | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Functional, Training, Performance