The Purpose of This Study Was to Determine Whether or Not Functional Training Has Similar Effects on Muscular Strength, Flexibility, Agility, Speed and Anthropometric Measures in Basketball Players as Traditional Resistance Training

The Effects of Functional Training on Performance Related Physical Fitness Parameters in Professional Basketball Players

Basketball has gained worldwide popularity and fascinated players and spectators with its dynamic characteristics as a team sport. This kind of sport is multifaceted that requires well-developed physical fitness to be played successfully. Many authors have suggested that strength, power, agility, and speed are important performance related physical components for elite basketball players. The physical components require that fitness and conditioning attributes of basketball players are well developed to negate the limiting aspect of sport performance. Moreover, functional training is becoming increasingly popular within the fitness industry and has been considered to be a better alternative than traditional training methods for improving various measures of performance. The purpose of this study was to determine whether functional training has effects on performance and related various physical components of basketball players.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Exercise; Basketball
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Functional Training

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 28
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 40 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants must be professional basketball players
• Participants have not any upper or lower extremities injury during last 3 months
• Participants must implement age limits

Exclusion Criteria:

• If participants who has;

  1. Surgery
  2. Musculoskeletal injuries
• Participants who transfer to another professional basketball team

• If participants who has;

  1. Systematic inflammatory diseases
  2. Neurological diseases
  3. Vascular conditions
  4. Alcohol abuse
  5. Psychiatric disorders

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control Group; Control group followed routine basketball training and traditional strength training.
Experimental: Training Group; Functional exercises were applied to training group for 20 weeks (2 days/week) with routine basketball training.	Other: Functional Training; Functional training has been defined as emphasizing multiple muscle and joint activities, combining upper and lower body movements, and utilizing more of the body in each movement. The primary goal of functional training is to transfer improvement achieve in one movement to enhancing the performance of another movement by affecting the entire neuromuscular system.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
one repetition strength tests	maximal bench press and leg press tests	20 weeks
jump tests	standing broad jump and vertical jump	20 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Speed Test	20 meters speed test	20 weeks
Agility tests	T-Drill and Lane-Agility tests	20 weeks
Flexibility Test	Sit and reach test	20 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hasan Kalyoncu University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Yavuz Yakut, Prof, Hasan Kalyoncu University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Myer GD, Ford KR, Palumbo JP, Hewett TE. Neuromuscular training improves performance and lower-extremity biomechanics in female athletes. J Strength Cond Res. 2005 Feb;19(1):51-60. doi: 10.1519/13643.1.
• Lagally KM, Cordero J, Good J, Brown DD, McCaw ST. Physiologic and metabolic responses to a continuous functional resistance exercise workout. J Strength Cond Res. 2009 Mar;23(2):373-9. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e31818eb1c9.
• Boyle, M., Functional training for sports. 2004: Human Kinetics
• Whitehurst MA, Johnson BL, Parker CM, Brown LE, Ford AM. The benefits of a functional exercise circuit for older adults. J Strength Cond Res. 2005 Aug;19(3):647-51. doi: 10.1519/R-14964.1.
• de Vreede PL, Samson MM, van Meeteren NL, Duursma SA, Verhaar HJ. Functional-task exercise versus resistance strength exercise to improve daily function in older women: a randomized, controlled trial. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005 Jan;53(1):2-10. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53003.x.
• Kibele A, Behm DG. Seven weeks of instability and traditional resistance training effects on strength, balance and functional performance. J Strength Cond Res. 2009 Dec;23(9):2443-50. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181bf0489.
• Milton, D.E., et al., The effect of functional exercise training on functional fitness levels of older adults. 2006, University of Wisconsin--La Crosse.
• Weiss, T., et al., Effect of functional resistance training on muscular fitness outcomes in young adults. Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness, 2010. 8(2): p. 113-122
• Oliver GD, Di Brezzo R. Functional balance training in collegiate women athletes. J Strength Cond Res. 2009 Oct;23(7):2124-9. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181b3dd9e.
• Thompson CJ, Cobb KM, Blackwell J. Functional training improves club head speed and functional fitness in older golfers. J Strength Cond Res. 2007 Feb;21(1):131-7. doi: 10.1519/00124278-200702000-00024.
• Murugan, A., Nageswaran, A. (2014) İnfluence of functional training on selected physical components among cricketers. Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 1 (2(5)).

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 27, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 29, 2014
• Study Completion (Actual): March 17, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 25, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 1, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): September 5, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 5, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 1, 2017
• Last Verified: September 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Training; Performance; Functional
• Other Study ID Numbers: LUT 12/99-24

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; SAP; ANALYTIC_CODE; CSR

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No