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

Hasan Kalyoncu University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Basketball; Exercise

Treatments: Other: Functional Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03272581

LUT 12/99-24

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group followed routine basketball training and traditional strength training.

Training Group

Experimental group

Description:

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

Treatment:

Other: Functional Training