Upper Body Plyometrics in Junior Male Cricket Fast Bowlers

NCT04400773 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: ECP19-18-19
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

A six-week upper body plyometric training program will be used to investigate its impact on fast bowling speed in junior male cricket players in Guyana, using a Stalker Sport 2 radar gun.

Conditions

Sport Performance

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Bowling speed

  Cricket fast bowlers' bowling speed measured using the Stalker Sport 2 radar gun

  After 6 weeks of exercise training

Study Arms (2)

Plyometric Group

EXPERIMENTAL

This group will receive a 6-week upper body plyometric exercise protocol. Sessions will last for 65 minutes, three times per week. Each week the exercises will be progressed and all sessions will be supervised by an exercise professional.

Other: Plyometric exercises

Strength Group

EXPERIMENTAL

This group will receive a 6-week upper body strength exercise protocol. Sessions will last for 65 minutes, three times per week. Each week the exercises will be progressed and all sessions will be supervised by an exercise professional.

Other: Strength training exercises

Interventions

Plyometric exercises OTHER

Types of exercises include resistance tubing 90-90 external rotation, plyometric push-up, reverse overhead throws, rotational wall throw, overhead medicine ball, chest passes.

Plyometric Group

Strength training exercises OTHER

Types of exercise include push-ups, resisted external rotation, overhead presses, biceps curl, bench presses and triceps kick backs.

Strength Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 19 Years
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Athletes must have been practicing the art of fast bowling for at least one year at the club level.
• Athletes must have been between the ages of 15-19.
• Athletes must have been uninjured at the time of commencement of the study.

You may not qualify if:

• Were outside of the age group being surveyed at the time of the study,
• Had been practicing fast bowling at the club level for less than one (1) year,
• Was injured at the time of commencement or within one year of the study.
• Could not commit to full participation in the study's training regimes.
• Received surgery in the three years prior to the study or had undergone rehabilitation within the past year.
• Were currently engaged in plyometric training as this may confound the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of The West Indies: lead

Study Sites (2)

Cricket Association-Clubs

Georgetown, Guyana

ENROLLING BY INVITATION

Cricket Association-Clubs

Georgetown, Guyana

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Plyometric Exercise

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Exercise Therapy; Rehabilitation; Aftercare; Continuity of Patient Care; Patient Care; Therapeutics; Physical Therapy Modalities; Physical Conditioning, Human; Exercise; Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Central Study Contacts

sharmella roopchand-martin, dpt

CONTACT

8763827143; sharmella.roopchandmartin@uwimona.edu.jm

shara creary-yan

CONTACT

8764746892; sharacreary@gmail.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Head- Mona Academy of Sport

Model Details: Two group pre-test post-test.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 19, 2020
• First Posted: May 26, 2020
• Study Start: November 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2020
• Study Completion: July 1, 2020
• Last Updated: May 26, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

GU (2)