- Title
- Supplementing regular training with short-duration sprint-agility training leads to a substantial increase in repeated sprint-agility performance with national level badminton players
- Creator
- O'Brien, Brendan; Walklate, Benjamin; Young, Warren; Paton, Carl
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/66237
- Identifier
- vital:2124
- Identifier
- ISSN:1064-8011
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181b339d9
- Abstract
- Walklate, BM, O’Brien, BJ, Paton, CD, and Young, W. Supplementing regular training with short-duration sprint-agility training leads to a substantial increase in repeated sprint-agility performance with national level badminton players. J Strength Cond Res. 23(5): 1477–1481, 2009—Repeated-agility sprint ability is an important performance characteristic of badminton players. However, it is unclear whether regular badminton training is sufficient to improve repeated-agility sprint ability or whether supplementary training is required. Therefore, our aim was to investigate whether supplementing regular group training with short sessions of badminton-specific agility-sprint training conferred any greater changes in performance than regular training alone. Twelve national level badminton players completed a set of performance tests in the week before and after a 4-week training period. Performance tests consisted of 10- and 20- meter sprints, a multistage fitness test, a 300-meter shuttle run, and a novel badminton sprint protocol. After pretesting, pairmatched participants were randomly assigned into regular or supplementary training groups. Both groups undertook regular national squad training consisting of 4 2-hour sessions per week. In addition, the supplementary group completed a highintensity sprint-training regime consisting of 7 to 15 repeats of badminton-specific sprints twice per week. Relative to control, the supplementary training group reported improvements (mean 6 90% confidence limits) in the 300-meter shuttle run (2.4% 6 2.7%) and badminton sprint protocol (3.6% 6 2.6%). However, there were no substantial difference in either the 10- meter (20.3% 6 2.1%) or 20-meter (20.6% 6 1.8%) sprint or the multistage fitness test (0.0% 6 2.7%). Supplementing regular training with sessions of short-duration sprint training appears to lead to worthwhile increases in repeated-agility sprint performance with national level badminton players.
- Relation
- Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research Vol. 23, no. 5 (2009), p. 1477–1481
- Rights
- Copyright Human Kinetics Publishers
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Raquet sports; Intermittent run; Speed work
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