Acute effects of dynamic and static stretching during warm-up on balance and agility for untrained adults
Date
2015-04-24Author
Nejati, Nazanin
Balarin, Gabriela Bendasoli
Gonzolas, Alex
Neal, Joseph
Advisor
Patterson, Jeremy A.Metadata
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Nejati, Nazanin. Acute Effects of Dynamic and Static Stretching During Warm-Up on Balance and Agility for Untrained Adults. --In Proceedings: 11th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS: Wichita State University, p. 58
Abstract
Establishing an effective pre exercise routine is important when taking on physical activity.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine and compare the acute effects of static and
dynamic stretching during warm-up on the performance of the participants with respect to
balance and agility.
Method: This study was conducted on adult untrained males between the ages of 18 and 30
years. Fifteen subjects (N=15) volunteered to participate in this study. Before onset of test
protocol, participants were explained the procedures of testing and training over three sessions,
which was performed on three different days within one week. They were instructed to begin
with a three minute warm up jog on each day of testing followed by either non stretch routine
(session 1), static stretch routine (session2) or complete a dynamic stretch routine (session 3).
After completion of warm up routines, individual's balance and agility were tested. To measure
balance, subjects were asked to complete a 30 seconds static stability on Bosu while standing
single-leg. Agility was measured by timed Nebraska agility drill.
Results: Mean differences across conditions were analyzed using a within subject repeated
measure ANOVA. If a significant interaction effect was detected, BONFERONNI POSTHOC
testing was used to determine mean differences between conditions. Statistical significance was
set at p?0.05. Furthermore, COHEN'S D effect sizes were run to determine the size of the effect
between conditions. Dynamic stretch and static stretching warm up had a significant effect on
agility and balance performance compared to no stretching. However, static stretching had no
remarkable effect on balance in comparison to no stretching, but it did influence agility.
Dynamic versus static warm-up group performed similarly statistically but based on effect size
analysis, the dynamic group had larger effect size than static.
Conclusion: This study reported similar outcomes to those previously published on the effects of
stretching on balance and agility that used laboratory equipment. We showed that similar results
can be produced by applying low cost field assessment.
Description
Presented to the 11th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Heskett Center, Wichita State University, April 24, 2015.
Research completed at Department of Human Performance Studies, College of Education