Investigation of the Effect of Maximal Strength Exercises on Some Performance Parameters of Amateur Football Players

Abstract

Aim of the study was to determine the effect of 8-week resistance exercises and applied to football players who are actively participate in Kayseri 1st Amateur league on speed, lower and upper extremity strength performances. This study  Athletes of 19 Güneş sports football club, whose average age is 27.85±8.9 years, average height is 177.54 cm, and body weight is 73.43±9.8, who compete in amateur clusters in Kayseri province, participated in our study. In the study, maximal strength exercises were applied 2 days a week in addition to the field trainings that continued during the 8-week period, and the participants were subjected to measurements in 2 different time periods, the pretest and the posttest. In our study, it was found that there was an increase in the average of the experimental group in other measurements, except for the 30-meter sprint test, and it was found that there was a significant increase of p<0.05 in some lower and upper extremity measurements. At the end of the research, it can be explained that the reason why the maximal strength training applied in the preparation period improved in some parameters in amateur athletes and that there was no significant progress in others, due to the physical and lifestyle of the athletes.