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The effect of prior heavy back squat exercise and sled towing on 40 meter maximal sprint performance.

Translated title

Term

4. semester

Publication year

2012

Submitted on

Pages

13

Abstract

Twelve Danish athletic sub-elite sprinters (six female and six male) were tested to determine the acute effect of a heavy back squat and sled towing, on 40 meter maximal sprint performance. The study consisted of a repeated measures design with three experimental conditions. During the control (CON) intervention, the participants performed a 30 minutes warm up, then a six minutes rest before performing a 40 meter maximal sprint test. For the squat intervention (SQ), the participants performed a 30 minutes warm up then one set of three repetitions 90% of one repetition maximum (1RM). The participants then had a six minutes rest before performing a 40 meter maximal sprint test. For the sled towing intervention (SL), the participants performed a 30 minutes warm up then a 15 meter maximal sled towing sprint. The participants then had a six minutes rest before performing a 40 meter maximal sprint test. The results showed no significance between the three interventions P=0.146 in the ANAOVA test.