Effects of dynamic warm-up with and without a weighted vest on lower extremity power performance of high school male athletes

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2009-05-01
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Carter, John W.
Boehner, Amber L.
Cameron, Cori N.
Murphy, Jessica R.
Peintner, Ashley M.
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Carter, John, Boehner, Amber, Cameron, Cori, Murphy, Jessica and Ashley Peintner (2009) . Effects of Dynamic Warm-up With and Without a Weighted Vest on Lower Extremity Power Performance of High School Male Athletes . In Proceedings: 5th Annual Symposium: Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS: Wichita State University, p. 84-85

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The purpose of this study was to compare lower extremity power performance utilizing the Margaria-Kalamen Power Test after a dynamic warm-up with and without a weighted vest. Sixteen (n = 16) high school male football players participated in two randomly ordered testing sessions. One session involved performing the football team's typical warm-up while wearing a vest weighted at 5% of the individual athlete's body weight before performing 3 trials of the Margaria-Kalamen Power Test. The second session involved performing the same team warm-up without wearing a weighted vest before performing 3 trials of the Margaria-Kalamen Power Test. The dynamic warm-up consisted of the following dynamic exercises, which lasted 5 minutes total: straight leg kicks, forward lunges, backward lunges, heel-rear kicks, high knees, stride-outs, deep lunges, and jogging. No significant difference was found in power performance between the non-resisted and resisted dynamic warm-up protocols (p = 0.161). It was concluded that a dynamic warm-up with a vest weighted at 5% of the athlete's body weight was not advantageous for increasing lower extremity power output in high school football players.

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Paper presented to the 5th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, Wichita State University, May 1, 2009.
Research completed at Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Professions
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