Acute Effect of Whole Body Vibration Training on Balance, Isokinetic Strength and Jump Performance

Abstract

The whole body vibration training, which has become popular in recent years, is a method applied in combination with training and is recommended for increasing the performance of the athlete. The aim of this study is to investigate the acute effect of whole body vibration training on balance, isokinetic strength and jump in volleyball players. University volleyball team player (n=12) voluntarily completed the whole body vibration training protocol. Before each measurement, the athletes were warmed up on the bicycle ergometer. Balance, isokinetic strength and jump tests were applied to the athletes on the first day. Before the tests performed on the 4th, 7th and 10th days, the athletes performed the dynamic squat exercise on the vibration platform. After the application, static and dynamic balance measurements (4th day), isokinetic strenght measurements (7th day) and active jump measurements (10th day) were performed. In the analysis of the data, the suitability of the parameters to the normal distribution was evaluated using the Shapiro-Wilk test. In addition, the skewness and kurtosis values were also examined to see if the data showeda normal distribution. As per results, while the tracking error in the dynamic test result decreased from the balance test parameters, there was no significant difference in other parameters. In addition, there was no significant difference in jump and isokinetic strength measurements. It can be said that whole body vibration training applied to volleyball players has no acute effect on balance, jumping and isokinetic strength.

C1 [Usta, Hilal Demir; Ramanli, Berna; Oksuzoglu, Aysegul Yapici] Pamukkale Univ, Fac Sport Sci, Denizli, Turkey.