NCT05516706

Dynamic Stretching Versus Plyometric Push up Training on Upper Body Performance in Cricketers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A comparison of dynamic stretching and plyometric pushup training on upper body performance tests of cricketers was performed.

Detailed description

A Randomised control trial was performed for six weeks in which a sample size of 22 was taken participants were divided into two groups in which one group performed warm-up and dynamic stretching and the other group performed warm-up plyometric pushup.

Conditions

• Sports Physical Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dynamic stretching	Participants in this group performed a 10 minutes warm-up followed by 15 minutes of dynamic stretching exercises which included arm cross-over, scapular scaption, upper body twist walking lunges, cat and cow pose, and rotator cuff movements.
OTHER	Plyometric push up	Participants in this group performed 10 minutes of warm-up followed by 15 minutes of plyometric push training which included one-arm push-ups and depth push up

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-22
• Primary completion: 2022-06-30
• Completion: 2022-07-30
• First posted: 2022-08-25
• Last updated: 2024-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan