Effects of Ladder Training Versus Plyometric Training Program

NCT ID: NCT06577129

Last Updated: 2024-08-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 42 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-06-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-08-01

Brief Summary

A team sport such as cricket consists of irregular sequences of high- and low-intensity motions utilising different metabolic pathways. Athlete performance in this sport is correlated with every facet of physical fitness, including muscular strength, agility, speed, anaerobic power (vertical leap), and aerobic capacity. All aspects of physical fitness, such as aerobic capacity, anaerobic power (vertical leap), agility, speed, and muscular strength, are related to success in this sport. Plyometric training that is repetitive and intermittent has been recommended as a useful tactic for cricket-specific training regimens. Plyometric exercise training is a type of workout regimen designed to enhance nervous system functioning and generate powerful, quick movements, ultimately improving sports performance. Plyometric training aims to increase muscular explosiveness, which enables an athlete to run more quickly, leap higher, or exert force more quickly. Because it takes into account the aspects of strength, power, balance, agility, coordination, core and joint stability, foot speed, hand-eye coordination, response time, and mobility, ladder training is a multidirectional kind of exercise. During ladder training, the four fundamental abilities utilized are running, skipping, shuffling, and leaping. These ladders are lightweight and portable, making them easy to carry and use both indoors and outdoors. The player's footwork will be significantly enhanced, leading to an increase in quickness, agility, and coordination following consistent use of various speed ladder training.

Detailed Description

A team sport, cricket combines high- and low-intensity motions employing different metabolic pathways on occasion. Ladder training is a multidirectional type of exercise because it combines the elements of strength, power, balance, agility, coordination, core stability, and joint immovability. In many sports where the ability to leap, run, and change direction is required, plyometric training is used to enhance physical performance. These two have proven useful in helping athletes train for a variety of sports.

The study's goal was to compare the benefits of a plyometric training program vs a ladder training program on the agility, speed, and power of domestic female cricket players. The 42-person research sample was chosen at random. Two groups were created from the sample: group 1 received ladder training, while group 2 received plyometric training. The agility T test, the vertical leap test, and the 30-meter dash test were the result procedures. Following an 8-week course of therapy, the patients' outcome factors were evaluated.

Conditions

Sports Physical Therapy

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Ladder training

Participants 21 out of 42 received ladder training.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Ladder training

Intervention Type: OTHER

Players exercised three times a week for sixty minutes apiece on a ladder for eight weeks. The drills were divided into three categories: steady state drills, burst drills, and elastic reaction drills. While steady state training focused on agility and endurance, burst drills were more focused on fast foot movement. Elastic response drills targeted the reactive speed components of the lower leg.

Plyometric training

21 participants out of 42 received ladder training.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Plyometric training

Intervention Type: OTHER

For eight weeks, the players performed a 60-minute plyometric training program three times a week. A fifteen-minute warm-up, stretching, and jogging session comes after the thirty minutes of plyometric training. The cool-down consists of fifteen minutes of light running and stretching.

Interventions

Ladder training

Players exercised three times a week for sixty minutes apiece on a ladder for eight weeks. The drills were divided into three categories: steady state drills, burst drills, and elastic reaction drills. While steady state training focused on agility and endurance, burst drills were more focused on fast foot movement. Elastic response drills targeted the reactive speed components of the lower leg.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Plyometric training

For eight weeks, the players performed a 60-minute plyometric training program three times a week. A fifteen-minute warm-up, stretching, and jogging session comes after the thirty minutes of plyometric training. The cool-down consists of fifteen minutes of light running and stretching.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age ranging from 18-25 year.
• Only female cricket players.
• Player with minimum 1- year experience of cricket.

Exclusion Criteria

• Any cardiopulmonary problem.
• Lower extremity injuries of last 6 months(fractures, ligament ruptures).
• Players who were unable to complete ladder and plyometric training.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 25 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Riphah International University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Sania Akram, MS*

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Riphah International University

Locations

Riphah International University

Lahore, Punjab Province, Pakistan

Countries

Pakistan

References

Pechlivanos RG, Amiridis IG, Anastasiadis N, Kannas T, Sahinis C, Duchateau J, Enoka RM. Effects of plyometric training techniques on vertical jump performance of basketball players. Eur J Sport Sci. 2024 Jun;24(6):682-692. doi: 10.1002/ejsc.12097. Epub 2024 Mar 21.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 38874937 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

F22C14G79010

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id