NCT03247777

Benefits of Traditional and Golf-specific Resistance Training in Amateur Female Golfers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: High Point University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Amateur female golfers were randomized to either a functional weight lifting group or a traditional weight lift group. Testing, consisting of performance measures and golf measures, was performed at baseline and after 10 weeks of weight lifting.

Detailed description

A randomized control trial to compare the effects of 10 weeks of two different types of training in recreationally active female golfers was performed. Participants were recruited through postings at local country clubs and public golf courses, as well as through emails to state and local women's golf associations. Following written informed consent approved by the university's institutional review board, participants completed a medical and golf history questionnaire. Golf-specific information gathered via the history form included self-reported number of years playing golf, handicap, frequency of play, frequency of practice. Baseline testing followed, consisting of measurement of height and weight using a stadiometer, bone density and body composition using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), 7-iron and driver club speed and total ball distance using a golf simulator (High Definition Golf, Interactive Sports Technologies, Vaughan, Ontario), and physical performance tests. Participants were then randomly assigned, using a random number generator, to either a traditional resistance training group (TRAD) or a golf-specific resistance training group (GSRT). Resistance training was conducted 3 days per week for 10 weeks. Each training session was directly supervised by at least one of the researchers, such that correct technique and appropriate resistance could be monitored. Following the 10 weeks of training, participants repeated the testing procedures under similar conditions as baseline testing.

Conditions

• Improved Performance in Amateur Female Golfers (MESH Term: Body Composition)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Traditional strengthening	dead lifts, bench press, wrist curls, and lat pulldowns as examples
OTHER	Functional Strengthening	diagonal chops, one leg deadlifts, lateral plyometrics as examples

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-11-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-04-01
• First posted: 2017-08-14
• Last updated: 2017-08-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States