NCT04400773

Upper Body Plyometrics in Junior Male Cricket Fast Bowlers

The Impact of Upper Body Plyometrics on Junior Male Cricket Fast Bowlers' Delivery Speed in Guyana

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The University of The West Indies · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 15 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A six-week upper body plyometric training program will be used to investigate its impact on fast bowling speed in junior male cricket players in Guyana, using a Stalker Sport 2 radar gun.

Detailed description

This randomized pilot study will compare the effects of a six-week Upper Body Plyometric program with Upper Body Strength Training. After gaining ethical approval and baseline bowling speeds recorded, thirty under 19 club level fast bowlers will be assigned to two groups to complete either an upper-body plyometric or strength training program. Each group will participate in three (3) supervised exercise intervention sessions per week. Each 65-minute session will consist of a warm-up and cool-down program in addition to specific and routinely progressed upper body exercises as per each group's protocol. At the end of the intervention period, their bowling speeds will again be measured using a Stalker Sport 2 radar gun.

Conditions

• Sport Performance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Plyometric exercises	Types of exercises include resistance tubing 90-90 external rotation, plyometric push-up, reverse overhead throws, rotational wall throw, overhead medicine ball, chest passes.
OTHER	Strength training exercises	Types of exercise include push-ups, resisted external rotation, overhead presses, biceps curl, bench presses and triceps kick backs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-01
• Primary completion: 2020-06-30
• Completion: 2020-07-01
• First posted: 2020-05-26
• Last updated: 2020-05-26

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Guyana