1Jamia Hamdard, Delhi
2Dept. of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, Delhi
3Hindu Rao Hospital, Delhi
Different stretching techniques have been used during warm up routines. However, these routines may decrease force production. The purpose of this study was to compare the acute effects of a dynamic and a static stretching protocol during warm up on lower limb power.
This study was conducted to find effects of static, dynamic and no stretch warm up protocol on power performance measure by five step jump test. It was a within subject experimental design. Forty two male soccer players (age =17 ± 0.503 years, weight = 56.65 ± 3.49 kg and height = 168.92 ± 5.38 cms) performed three experimental sessions: a control session (with no stretching), a dynamic session and static session within a warm up followed by five step jump test for lower extremity power.
Results indicated that the warm up with dynamic stretching conferred a significant performance enhancement in the measures of power. Results also indicated that warm up with static stretching had significant detrimental effect on performance in the measure of power.
From this study it may be concluded that instead of static stretching dynamic stretching should be included in the warm up for soccer players.
Static stretching, dynamic stretching, warm up, power, soccer, five step jump test
