Post-activation performance enhancement in sprinters: effects of hard versus sand surfaces
Pereira, Lucas A., Boullosa, Daniel, Moura, Túlio B. M. A., Mercer, Valter P., Fernandes, Victor, Bishop, Chris 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1505-1287 and Loturco, Irineu
(2022)
Post-activation performance enhancement in sprinters: effects of hard versus sand surfaces.
Journal of Human Kinetics, 82
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pp. 173-180.
ISSN 1899-7562
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(doi:10.2478/hukin-2022-0062)
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Abstract
Abstract This study aimed to compare the post-activation performance enhancement induced by successive drop-jumps performed on hard and sand surfaces in sprint and jump performance of top-level sprinters. Athletes were tested on two occasions. On each visit they were allocated to one of the experimental protocols, which consisted of performing 2x5 drop-jumps from a box with the height of 60-cm on hard or sand surfaces in randomized order, seven days apart. Prior to and 7 and 15-min after executing drop-jumps, sprinters performed countermovement jumps and 60-m sprint tests. Differences between sprinting splits and surfaces were assessed using a two-way analysis of variance with repeated measures. No significant differences in jump height or sprint time were observed (p>0.05), regardless of the surface used (i.e., hard or sand) during the conditioning activity (effect sizes [95% confidence intervals] ranging from 0.01 [-0.84;0.84] to 0.44 [-0.42;1.27]). Performing drop-jumps on sand or hard surfaces immediately before maximum sprinting bouts does not provide any advantage or disadvantage to top-level sprinters. Sprint coaches may prescribe short-plyometric training activities on sand surfaces even close to competitions, bearing in mind that this strategy will not compromise sprint-specific performance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords (uncontrolled): | Physiology (medical), Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > London Sport Institute > Strength and Conditioning at the London Sport Institute |
| Item ID: | 35062 |
| Notes on copyright: | © 2022 Lucas A. Pereira, Daniel Boullosa, Túlio B. M. A. Moura, Valter P. Mercer, Victor Fernandes, Chris Bishop, Irineu Loturco, published by Sciendo
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| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2022 11:34 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2023 15:09 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/35062 |
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