High Levels of Hamstring Flexibility May Enhance Physical Fitness Performance in Elite Soccer-Players

Marios Hadjicharalambous
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Marios Hadjicharalambous: Human Performance laboratory, Department of Life & Health Sciences, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Journal of Physical Fitness, Medicine & Treatment in Sports, 2020, vol. 7, issue 4, 1-5

Abstract: There is growing confusion of whether stretching training (static or dynamic) affect athletes’ performance. Studies suggested that acute pre-competition stretching, may diminish maximum speed and muscular explosiveness performance in very short but powerful athletic trails/events. Similarly, studies suggested that by increasing the range of motion, with flexibility training, may negatively influence performance in long-distance runners. However, how safe is for soccer scientists/coaches to generalize results from studies that did not utilize soccer players and without taking into consideration the demands, needs, environment and the nature of soccer as a sport? In this opinion, we will focus specifically on the effect of sit-and-reach flexibility levels on elite young and mature/professional soccer-players’ physical fitness performance. Studies from our laboratory observed positive results of the effect of “good†levels of sit-and-reach flexibility on elite soccer players’ physical fitness performance.

Keywords: Flexibility training; Physical fitness performance; Elite soccer players; Physical fitness; Soccer-players; Christou; Mature athletes; Broad-jump; Elite soccer-players; Bleep-test; Hamstrings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.19080/JPFMTS.2020.01.555720

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