Effects of Ladder Training Versus Plyometric Training Program

NCT06577129 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: F22C14G79010
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 42
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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.

Conditions

Sports Physical Therapy

Keywords

Ladder training, plyometric, female domestic players

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Vertical Jump test

  Players stand up against a wall and use the hand that is closest to the wall to measure how high they can reach while standing. Then, using their arms and legs to propel their body higher, they do a vertical leap. The score, which is determined by subtracting their standing reach height from their jump height, is best of three attempts.

  8 weeks

• 30 Yard dash test

  A 30-yard sprint is required for the test, with the front foot on or behind the starting line and the shoulders parallel to the floor. Once you have held the starting stance for two seconds, you are not allowed to rock. Timing starts when the timing mechanism is triggered or the initial motion takes place.

  8 weeks

• Agility T test

  The subject starts at cone A, runs to cone B, sprints there, touches the base of cone B with their right hand, shuffles sideways to cone C, then to cone D, runs back to cone B, and repeats the process until they reach cone A. The timer stops when they pass over cone A.

  8 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Ladder training

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants 21 out of 42 received ladder training.

Other: Ladder training

Plyometric training

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

21 participants out of 42 received ladder training.

Other: Plyometric training

Interventions

Ladder training 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.

Ladder training

Plyometric training 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.

Plyometric training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 25 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: Females of age between 18 to 25 years.
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Riphah International University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Riphah International University

Lahore, Punjab Province, 54000, Pakistan

Location

Related Publications (1)

• 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.

  PMID: 38874937 BACKGROUND

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

Study Officials

• Sania Akram, MS*

  Riphah International University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 27, 2024
• First Posted: August 29, 2024
• Study Start: June 1, 2024
• Primary Completion: July 28, 2024
• Study Completion: August 1, 2024
• Last Updated: August 29, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

PA (1)