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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Basketball; Exercise
• Interventions: Other: Functional Training

• Registration Number: NCT03272581
• Lead Sponsor: Hasan Kalyoncu University

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-08-27
• Primary Completion: 2014-01-29
• Study Completion: 2015-03-17
• Study First Submitted: 2017-08-25
• Status Verified: 2017-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-09-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-09-01
• Study First Posted: 2017-09-05
• Last Update Posted: 2017-09-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 28

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;

  1. Surgery
  2. Musculoskeletal injuries

• Participants who transfer to another professional basketball team

• If participants who has;

  1. Systematic inflammatory diseases
  2. Neurological diseases
  3. Vascular conditions
  4. Alcohol abuse
  5. Psychiatric disorders

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Training Group	Functional Training	Functional exercises were applied to training group for 20 weeks (2 days/week) with routine basketball training.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
one repetition strength tests	20 weeks	maximal bench press and leg press tests
jump tests	20 weeks	standing broad jump and vertical jump

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Flexibility Test	20 weeks	Sit and reach test
Speed Test	20 weeks	20 meters speed test
Agility tests	20 weeks	T-Drill and Lane-Agility tests