Effects of Ice With Active Warmup and Active Warmup Alone on Performance in Football Player

Abstract

Study objective: To know the effects of ice before active warm up on athletic performance. Study design: Post test same subject group design. Study Setting: Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Battalion No 31, Okhla, New Delhi. Subjects: 30 Healthy athletic malefootball players of age 18-24 years participated in the study. Measurement: A total number of 30 homogenous subjects were randomly assigned into two groups Group 'A' and 'B', each group consisting of 15 subjects. Group A was given Ice pack before Active warm up and group B was given Active warm up alone. Each warm-up protocol was given at least 48 hours after the previous protocol. After all the warm-up protocols three maximal performance tests viz., single leg vertical jump height, forty yard sprint and Agility shuttle run was done in each subject. Results: Repeated measure ANOVA with Post Hoc Analysis Bonferroni was used to compare the entirethree performance test after the warm-up protocol. The result indicates that there is highly significant difference after active warm-up than the ice pack with active warm-up protocol in single leg vertical jump height, forty yard sprint and agility shuttle run (P < 0.05). Conclusion:The study results showed that ice pack application before the active warm up decreases the athletic performance and thus active warm up alone is better for enhancing the athletic performances.