Effect of Different Core Exercises Applied During the Season on Strength and Technical Skills of Young Footballers

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of two different types of core training applied during the season on the strength performance and football technical skills of young footballers. A total of 18 footballers average age was 15±0.8years voluntarily participated in the study. Two different core trainings were applied in addition to football technical skills. Before and after the study, the sit-up, standing long jump, push-up, dribbling, passing and shooting performances of players were observed. Data were assessed with the SPSS. In the dynamic group there were statistically significant improvements in all variables apart from shooting and passing, while the static group had statistically significant development of all variables apart from shooting. The control group only had statistically significant development for sit-up performance. While development sufficient to form significant differences between the variables observed in the experimental groups was not observed, there were significant differences for all variables when compared with the control group apart from shooting performance. In conclusion, footballers with eight-week dynamic and static core training added to in-season football training had similar levels of development in terms of strength and football technical skills, with significant development of strength, dribbling and passing skills when compared to a group without core training. In light of this data, eight-week dynamic and static strength training applied to footballers in the development period may be said to be an effective method to develop abdominal muscle strength and explosive strength performance and to develop dribbling and passing skills unique to football.

Effect of Core Training on Skill Performance Among Athletes: A Systematic Review

“…As for frequency, only three studies did not report the training frequency (Kamal, 2015;Lee & McGill, 2017;Yapıcı, 2019). The frequency in other 13 studies was from 2 to 5 times a week (Patil et al, 2012;Weston et al, 2013;Abuwarda, 2014;Hassan, 2017;Manchado et al, 2017;Watson et al, 2017;Bavli & Koç, 2018;Mahmoud, 2018;Akçinar & Macit, 2020;Ahmed et al, 2021;Dogan & Savaş, 2021;Mahmoud, 2021;Şahiner & Koca, 2021).…”

“…1) Categorization of athletes. Among the 16 documents, there were three articles on football players (Bavli & Koç, 2018;Ahmed et al, 2021;Mahmoud, 2021); three articles on handball players (Manchado et al, 2017;Akçinar & Macit, 2020;Mahmoud, 2021); two articles on basketball players (Dogan & Savaş, 2021;Şahiner & Koca, 2021); one article on swimmers (Patil et al, 2012); and the remaining seven articles were on dance (Watson et al, 2017), Karat (Kamal, 2015), Muay Thai (Lee & McGill, 2017), gymnasts (Abuwarda, 2014), volleyball (Yapıcı, 2019), badminton (Hassan, 2017) and golf (Weston et al, 2013). 2) Number, gender, and age.…”

“…In terms of the intervention type, all works used core training as the primary intervention. Some studies refer to core training core exercise (Watson et al, 2017) as core strength training (Kamal, 2015;Dogan & Savaş, 2021;Mahmoud, 2021), isometric/dynamic core exercise (Lee & McGill, 2017), core stability exercise (Abuwarda, 2014), dynamic/ static core exercise (Bavli & Koç, 2018), core stability training (Hassan, 2017). In addition, with the exception of three articles that only explored the effect of core training on athletes' skill performance (Kamal, 2015;Lee & McGill, 2017;Yapıcı, 2019), the remaining studies compared the differences among core training and traditional strength training or routine training on participants' skill performance.…”

“…As for duration, all studies lasted from four to 12 weeks. In these studies, most experiments lasted for 8 weeks (Weston et al, 2013;Hassan, 2017;Bavli & Koç, 2018;Akçinar & Macit, 2020;Dogan & Savaş, 2021;Şahiner & Koca, 2021), four studies lasted for 10 weeks (Kamal, 2015;Manchado et al, 2017;Mahmoud, 2018;Mahmoud, 2021), three studies lasted for 6 weeks, and the remaining studies lasted for 4 weeks (Ahmed et al, 2021), 9 weeks (Watson et al, 2017), and 12 weeks (Abuwarda, 2014), respectively.…”

Entrenamiento del Core y su efecto en la técnica de remate en jugadoras de fútbol

“…Existen pocos estudios sobre la relevancia del entrenamiento de la fuerza del core en relación al desarrollo de la técnica deportiva en el deporte para (Bavlı & Koç, 2018), como para muchos el desarrollo de la fuerza es muy importante en la actualidad: "Cuando el entrenamiento de fuerza se aplica correctamente en una forma planificada, se ha determinado que tiene efectos positivos en los individuos en el período de desarrollo" (p.72).…”