The aim was to assess whether balance training would improve downhill skiing for 30 physical education students who had no previous skiing experience and were randomly assigned to two groups. The control group attended only ski lessons for two weeks, 2 to 4 hours daily. The experimental group attended downhill ski lessons and indoor balance training on a balance board, wearing ski boots, for 20 min. every second day in the afternoon. All participants before training completed a balance assessment (stability indices). After the completion of the ski classes, all repeated the balance assessment and two downhill ski tests of agility, slalom and snow-ploughing techniques. Analysis of variance with repeated measures showed both groups improved balance similarly, but the experimental group performed significantly better on the downhill-slalom agility test, so the specific indoor balance training was helpful.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the sprinting performance in a 30m run in adolescent athletes' by applying three testing conditions: wearing running shoes, spikes and barefoot. 33 runners aged 11.9±1.1 years (19 boys & 14 girls) were recruited for the study and competed at the testing conditions in a random order with a standard of 48-hour rest. The participants' anthropometrical data (age, body mass, stature, foot length) were measured besides with their footwear parameters (running shoes & spikes masses). The t-test was applied in order to compare the runners' sprinting performance and the ANOVA was used in order to evaluate the 30m finish times in all testing trials in relation to the gender. Pearson analysis measured the inter-correlations among the "testing protocols", "anthropometry" and "footwear parameters". The results showed that the participants' performance with spikes (5.28±0.4s) was not significantly better than that with running shoes (5.30±0.5s) or barefoot (5.31±0.5s). The correlation analysis did not present any significant interaction between the foot length and running shoes-spikes mass with the athletes' performance in all testing protocols. In summary, the findings of this study recorded that the adolescent athletes' barefoot sprinting performance was not significantly worse than that of wearing running shoes and spikes.
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