- Title
- Association between leg power and sprinting technique with 20-m sprint performance in elite junior Australian football players
- Creator
- Young, Warren; Grace, Steve; Talpey, Scott
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169183
- Identifier
- vital:13959
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1260/1747-9541.9.5.1153
- Identifier
- ISBN:1747-9541
- Abstract
- The main purpose of this study was to determine the association between leg power and sprint technique with 20-m sprint performance. Seventy- seven elite junior Australian Rules football players were assessed on a 20-m sprint test, a countermovement jump (CMJ) and a two bound test, and on a new method of quantifying sprint technique from simple video recordings. Technique assessment involved rating 14 points on a scale from 1-5. Players were median-split into faster and slower groups based on their 20-m times, and they were compared for differences in leg power and technique. The faster group was significantly better (p<0.05) in the two-bound test (5.2%) and the technique score (8.2%), but not in the CMJ (p>0.05). A multiple regression indicated that the two-bound test and technique accounted for 37.7% of the variance associated with the 20-m sprint time (p<0.05). It was concluded that the technique assessment tool captured some important characteristics of 20-m sprint performance and could potentially be used to profile or monitor athletes. Further the two-bound test is a more relevant test for developing athletes because of its specificity to sprinting, compared to the CMJ. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR
- Publisher
- Sage
- Relation
- International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching Vol. 9, no. 5 (2014), p. 1153-1160
- Rights
- Copyright Sage
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Sprinting; Australian football players; Athletic ability testing; Vertical jump; Multiple regression analysis; Acceleration; Australian Football; Leg Power; Sprinting Technique; Vertical Jump; 11 Medical and Health Sciences; 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
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