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NCT Number: NCT03272581

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Basketball Behavior Exercise Motor Activity

Age range

18 year–40 year

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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;
  • Surgery
  • Musculoskeletal injuries
  • Participants who transfer to another professional basketball team
  • If participants who has;
  • Systematic inflammatory diseases
  • Neurological diseases
  • Vascular conditions
  • Alcohol abuse
  • Psychiatric disorders

Treatment and study plan

Functional Training

Other

Functional training has been defined as emphasizing multiple muscle and joint activities, combining upper and lower body movements, and utilizing more of the body in each movement. The primary goal of functional training is to transfer improvement achieve in one movement to enhancing the performance of another movement by affecting the entire neuromuscular system.

Primary outcomes

  1. one repetition strength tests

    Time frame: 20 weeks

    maximal bench press and leg press tests

  2. jump tests

    Time frame: 20 weeks

    standing broad jump and vertical jump

Secondary outcomes

  1. Speed Test

    Time frame: 20 weeks

    20 meters speed test

  2. Agility tests

    Time frame: 20 weeks

    T-Drill and Lane-Agility tests

  3. Flexibility Test

    Time frame: 20 weeks

    Sit and reach test

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hasan Kalyoncu University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

The Effects of Functional Training on Performance Related Physical Fitness Parameters in Professional Basketball Players

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2015
First posted
Sep 5, 2017
Registry last updated
Sep 5, 2017

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