The effect of hip training on dynamic balance in young football players
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47197/retos.v72.117478Keywords:
Hip muscle, strength training, balance control, football playersAbstract
Objective: This study was to determine hip muscle training programs on dynamic balance and in young football players.
Methods: The subjects were 22 young football players in the sports school of Nakhon Ratchasima, aged 15-18 years, randomly divided into 2 groups of 11 and trained 3 days a week for 8 weeks. The experimental group was training in a hip muscle training program (age 17.70 ± 1.15 years, high 172.36 ± 5.40 cm, body weight 59.60 ± 5.29 kg, bmi 19.92 ± 1.29), and the control group was only under a normal training program (age 17.60 ± 1.17 years, high 173.89 ± 5.62 cm, body weight 70.42 ± 8.29 kg, bmi 22.73 ± 3.12). Both groups were examined for within-group statistical data by the one-way ANOVA with repeated measures, and the independent samples t-test was conducted before, after 4 weeks, and after 8 weeks between groups at a statistical significance level of 0.05.
Results: Data showed that hip muscle strength in all movements and the dynamic balance by the star excursion balance test, especially in the anterior, anterolateral, posterolateral, and anteromedial directions of the right leg and the anterolateral and posteromedial directions of the left leg after 4 weeks and 8 weeks, were higher than before training (p < 0.05).
Conclusions: The findings suggest that the hip muscle training program can improve dynamic balance, and there is a strong positive correlation between hip muscle strengthening and balance in young football players.
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