Blood Flow Restriction Strength Training in Professional Soccer Players

University of the Balearic Islands

Status: Completed

Conditions: Resistance Training; Blood Pressure

Treatments: Other: Blood Flow Restriction Strength training with low load; Other: High Load Strength Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04630951

160CER20

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aims of this clinical study are evaluated the effects of Blood Flood Restriction training on the sport performance of professional and semi-professional soccer players. The participants are twenty male professional and semi-professional soccer players who are playing at RCD Mallorca. Participants will be assigned in two different groups. Both groups develop for six weeks a strength training programs. The first group will base their training in Low Load using Blood Flow Restriction (20-50% of one maximum repetition). The second group will base their training in High Load (60-80% of one maximum repetition). This training program includes three type of exercises in each training session; back squat, single deadlift and barbell hip thrust. Before and after this program the investigators will collect sociodemographic and anthropometrics data. On top of that, the investigators will evaluate the muscle mass, the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles, the muscle strength and the sprint ability of every participant. Before to the evaluation, the soccer players will warm-up during 15 minutes under the control of the evaluators.

Full description

PARTICIPANTS:

Participants are soccer players of RCD Mallorca (Second Spanish Football Division) and RCD Mallorca B (Third Spanish Football Division).Before to start the study, every participant will receive an informed consent about the clinical study. This informed consent will be signed by them according to Declaration of Helsinki. At the same time, the data will be anonymized and only the main researcher of the study will have access to it, to ensure compliance with the Data Protection Law.

W-UP:

The warm-up will consist of 5 minutes running slow (treadmill), 5 minutes mobility, and 5 minutes of running exercises. In addition, the warm-up will contain a familiarization with the jump test

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 14 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• No injuries in the last 6 months
• 1 years experience minimun in the division.

Exclusion criteria

• Amateurs players

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Strength training based on low loads with blood flow restriction (Experimental group I)

Experimental group

Description:

1. Squat 2. Single Deadlift 3. Back Squat

Treatment:

Other: Blood Flow Restriction Strength training with low load

Strenght training based on high loads (Experimental group II)

Experimental group

Description:

1. Squat 2. Single Deadlift 3. Back Squat

Treatment:

Other: High Load Strength Training