1. How effective are external cues and analogies in enhancing sprint and jump performance in academy soccer players?
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Moran, Jason, Allen, Matt, Butson, Joshua, Granacher, Urs, Hammami, Raouf, Clemente, Filipe Manuel, Klabunde, Megan, and Sandercock, Gavin
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EXERCISE physiology , *REPEATED measures design , *SOCCER , *PROMPTS (Psychology) , *TASK performance , *DATA analysis , *RESEARCH funding , *PHYSICAL training & conditioning , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *STATISTICS , *ATHLETIC ability , *JUMPING , *SPRINTING - Abstract
This study investigated the effect of external (EC) and internal coaching cues (IC), analogies with a directional component (ADC) on sprint (20 m) and vertical jump performance in academy soccer players (n = 20). A repeated-measures analysis, with post-hoc comparisons, was used to identify any differences between these cues and a neutral (control) cue. Significant differences were found for both sprint (p < 0.001) and jump (p = 0.022) comparisons among cue types. In post-hoc analyses for the 20 m sprint, significant differences were observed between the EC and the IC, favouring the EC (p < 0.01, ES = 1.27 [CI: 0.24, 2.30]), and "away" ADC and the IC, favouring the "away" ADC (p < 0.01, ES = 1.21 [CI: 0.19, 2.22]). No other cues showed significant differences. For vertical jump, there was just one significant difference between comparisons, that being for the "away" ADC vs. the neutral cue, favouring the latter (p = 0.023, ES = 0.4 [CI: −0.04 to 0.84]). It appears that ECs and ADCs are most effective when coaching sprinting performance in academy soccer players. However, simply encouraging maximal effort from a youth athlete also appears to be a reasonable cueing strategy to drive performance in youth athletes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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