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Using Daily Stretching to Counteract Performance Decreases as a Result of Reduced Physical Activity—A Controlled Trial

There are many reasons for reduced physical activity leading to reduced maximal strength and sport-specific performance, such as jumping performance. These include pandemic lockdowns, serious injury, or prolonged sitting in daily work life. Consequently, such circumstances can contribute to increase...

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Autores principales: Warneke, Konstantin, Konrad, Andreas, Keiner, Michael, Zech, Astrid, Nakamura, Masatoshi, Hillebrecht, Martin, Behm, David G.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36497646
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315571
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author Warneke, Konstantin
Konrad, Andreas
Keiner, Michael
Zech, Astrid
Nakamura, Masatoshi
Hillebrecht, Martin
Behm, David G.
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description There are many reasons for reduced physical activity leading to reduced maximal strength and sport-specific performance, such as jumping performance. These include pandemic lockdowns, serious injury, or prolonged sitting in daily work life. Consequently, such circumstances can contribute to increased morbidity and reduced physical performance. Therefore, a demand for space-saving and home-based training routines to counteract decreases in physical performance is suggested in the literature. This study aimed to investigate the possibility of using daily static stretching using a stretching board to counteract inactivity-related decreases in performance. Thirty-five (35) participants were either allocated to an intervention group (IG), performing a daily ten-minute stretch training combined with reduced physical activity or a reduced physical activity-only group (rPA). The effects on maximal voluntary contraction, range of motion using the knee-to-wall test, countermovement jump height (CMJ(height)), squat jump height (SJ(height)), drop jump height (DJ(height)), contact time (DJ(ct)) and the reactive strength index (DJ(RSI)) were evaluated using a pre-test-post-test design. The rPA group reported reduced physical activity because of lockdown. Results showed significant decreases in flexibility and jump performance (d = −0.11–−0.36, p = 0.004–0.046) within the six weeks intervention period with the rPA group. In contrast, the IG showed significant increases in MVC90 (d = 0.3, p < 0.001) and ROM (d = 0.44, p < 0.001) with significant improvements in SJ(height) (d = 0.14, p = 0.002), while no change was measured for CMJ(height) and DJ performance. Hence, 10 min of daily stretching seems to be sufficient to counteract inactivity-related performance decreases in young and healthy participants.
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spelling pubmed-97414222022-12-11 Using Daily Stretching to Counteract Performance Decreases as a Result of Reduced Physical Activity—A Controlled Trial Warneke, Konstantin Konrad, Andreas Keiner, Michael Zech, Astrid Nakamura, Masatoshi Hillebrecht, Martin Behm, David G. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article There are many reasons for reduced physical activity leading to reduced maximal strength and sport-specific performance, such as jumping performance. These include pandemic lockdowns, serious injury, or prolonged sitting in daily work life. Consequently, such circumstances can contribute to increased morbidity and reduced physical performance. Therefore, a demand for space-saving and home-based training routines to counteract decreases in physical performance is suggested in the literature. This study aimed to investigate the possibility of using daily static stretching using a stretching board to counteract inactivity-related decreases in performance. Thirty-five (35) participants were either allocated to an intervention group (IG), performing a daily ten-minute stretch training combined with reduced physical activity or a reduced physical activity-only group (rPA). The effects on maximal voluntary contraction, range of motion using the knee-to-wall test, countermovement jump height (CMJ(height)), squat jump height (SJ(height)), drop jump height (DJ(height)), contact time (DJ(ct)) and the reactive strength index (DJ(RSI)) were evaluated using a pre-test-post-test design. The rPA group reported reduced physical activity because of lockdown. Results showed significant decreases in flexibility and jump performance (d = −0.11–−0.36, p = 0.004–0.046) within the six weeks intervention period with the rPA group. In contrast, the IG showed significant increases in MVC90 (d = 0.3, p < 0.001) and ROM (d = 0.44, p < 0.001) with significant improvements in SJ(height) (d = 0.14, p = 0.002), while no change was measured for CMJ(height) and DJ performance. Hence, 10 min of daily stretching seems to be sufficient to counteract inactivity-related performance decreases in young and healthy participants. MDPI 2022-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9741422/ /pubmed/36497646 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315571 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Using Daily Stretching to Counteract Performance Decreases as a Result of Reduced Physical Activity—A Controlled Trial
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36497646
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315571
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