Acute effect of specific soccer warm-up on sprint performance after static stretching in amateur female soccer players (original) (raw)
While athletes routinely perform warm-up and stretching exercise, it has been suggested that static stretching immediately after the low-intensity aerobic exercise might affect negatively the sprint performance. Due to the fact that in soccer athletes performed specific soccer warm-up before the game, the purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of acute effect of soccer specific warm-up on 20-m sprint performance in 20 amateur female soccer players, after static stretching. All participants performed 3 maximal sprints immediately after the low-intensity aerobic exercise, after static stretching and immediately after specific soccer warm-up. The results of the repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that 20-m sprint impair immediately after static stretching (p<0.05) and improved significantly immediately after specific soccer warm-up (p<0.01). The findings of this study support the fact that after static stretching a dynamic type of exercise with varied intensity should follow, so that the sprint performance of the soccer players will not be affected negatively.
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