Effects of Post-activation Performance Enhancement Protocols on Judo-specific Performance: a Randomized Crossover Trial

Universidade do Porto

Status: Completed

Conditions: No Condition, Basic Science

Treatments: Other: Warm-up (specifically, Post-Activation Performance Enhancement)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06768723

IRB/SPES/NOC/2023-24/03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aimed to investigate the post-activation performance enhancement (PAPE) of the special judo fitness test (SJFT) of youth judo athletes using upper-body (isometric push-ups), lower-body (standing broad jumps), or their combination as conditioning exercise (CE).

Full description

Fourteen females (aged 16.5 ± 0.8 yrs) and nine males (aged 17.0 ± 0.9 yrs) performed the three CEs or a control condition (i.e., judo-specific warm-up) in a randomized crossover method. The SJFT was conducted one minute after the CE or control condition.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Minimum of 4 years of judo training and competition experience.
• Actively practicing the sport and preparing for a competition during the time of data collection
• Proficient at performing the ippon seoi-nage throwing (judo) technique

Exclusion criteria

• Disease or serious injury that inhibited participating in the warm-up protocols and subsequent testing sessions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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25 participants in 4 patient groups

Upper body PAPE protocol

Experimental group

Description:

Half of the judo-specific protocol + 3 sets of 10-second hold isometric push-ups.

Treatment:

Other: Warm-up (specifically, Post-Activation Performance Enhancement)

Lower body PAPE protocol

Experimental group

Description:

Half of the judo-specific protocol + 3 sets of 6 repetitions of standing broad jump.

Treatment:

Other: Warm-up (specifically, Post-Activation Performance Enhancement)

Combined (Upper body+Lower body) PAPE protocol

Experimental group

Description:

Half of the judo-specific protocol + 3 sets of 3 repetitions of standing broad jump + 3 sets of 5-second hold isometric push-ups.

Treatment:

Other: Warm-up (specifically, Post-Activation Performance Enhancement)

Control (judo-specific) protocol

Active Comparator group

Description:

Judo-specific exercises that included 10 repetitions of ukemi drills (i.e., front, back, side, and rolling), 2 sets of 10 repetitions of "rapid" uchikomi drills (i.e., throwing drills), 2 sets of 1 minute of kumikata fight (i.e., grip fight), and 2 sets of 10 repetitions of nagekomi (i.e., practice throws).

Treatment:

Other: Warm-up (specifically, Post-Activation Performance Enhancement)