Field hockey is a team sport that is played using sticks and balls. Player's motions are impromptu and determine how competitive matches are played. Athletes can enhance their performance through a variety of training regimens. "Sprint Interval Training," for short bursts of maximal or supramaximal exercise, is one type of training used to improve sports performance. During recovering intervals, participants alternate between passive rest or light to moderately hard work. In both skilled and novice players, Sprint interval training significantly increases anaerobic and aerobic performance. This study aims to determine the impact of sprint interval training on hockey player's running performance, speed, and direction changes.
Field hockey is a team sport played with sticks and balls in which players' movements are spontaneous and dictate the fluctuating nature of competitive match play. A number of training programs are used to improve the performance of the athlete. One of the trainings that is used to enhance the performance of a sports person is "Sprint Interval Training" and it consists of short bursts of maximal or supramaximal exercise interspersed with passive rest or light to moderately intense exertion during rebound periods. Sprint interval training dramatically improves anaerobic and aerobic performance in both trained and untrained athletes. The aim of this study is to find the effect of sprint internal training on speed, change of direction and running performance among field hockey players. A randomized controlled trial will be conducted at Pakistan Sports Academy, Lahore through non-probability convenience sampling technique on 28 players which will be allocated into both interventional and control group. Pre-training values of the players will be recorded by 20 m sprint test for speed, 505 Change of direction test for change of direction and 3000m time trial for running performance. Both groups will perform regular training. Sprint interval training will be given to Group A and regular training will be performed by Group B. Players will perform the training 3 times a week for 4 weeks and treatment evaluation will be done after 4 weeks. Data will be analyzed using SPSS software version 26. After assessing normality of data by Shapiro-Wilk test, it will be decided either parametric or non-parametric test will be used.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
28
performed their routine programs
Sprint interval training will be given for 4 weeks. Each week consisted of three training sessions, separated by at least one resting day. Participants will complete a 15-minutes warm up before training session. The Sprint interval training group consisted of 30 s sprints at near maximal effort, with three minutes of rest between each sprint. The training intensity of Sprint interval training sessions was evaluated subjectively during sessions. During the first week, the Sprint interval training group performed five sprints per session. The number of sprints then increased gradually, until a total of 10 sprints per session. When the number of sprints reached seven, subjects were given six minutes of rest midway through the training session
Pakistan sports Academy
Lahore, Punjab Province, Pakistan
RECRUITINGSpeed
It will be assessed by 20m sprint test, values will be taken before and after the application of sprint interval training for the participants of both groups.
Time frame: 10 months
Change of direction
It will be assessed by 505 Change of direction test, values will be taken before and after the application of sprint interval training for the participants of both groups.
Time frame: 10 months
Running performance
It will be assessed by 3000m time trial, values will be taken before and after the application of sprint interval training for the participants of both groups.
Time frame: 10 months
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