Upper Body Plyometrics in Junior Male Cricket Fast Bowlers

Sport Performance Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04400773
• Other study ID #: ECP19-18-19
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: May 2020
• Source: The University of The West Indies
• Contact: sharmella roopchand-martin, dpt
• Phone: 8763827143
• Email: sharmella.roopchandmartin[@]uwimona.edu.jm
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 15 Years to 19 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:• Only male athletes were admitted to the study.

• Athletes must have been practicing the art of fast bowling for at least one year at the club level.

• Athletes must have been between the ages of 15-19.

• Athletes must have been uninjured at the time of commencement of the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• • Were outside of the age group being surveyed at the time of the study,

• Had been practicing fast bowling at the club level for less than one (1) year,

• Was injured at the time of commencement or within one year of the study.

• Could not commit to full participation in the study's training regimes.

• Received surgery in the three years prior to the study or had undergone rehabilitation within the past year.

• Were currently engaged in plyometric training as this may confound the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Sport Performance

Intervention

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.
• Strength training exercises
Types of exercise include push-ups, resisted external rotation, overhead presses, biceps curl, bench presses and triceps kick backs.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Guyana	Cricket Association-Clubs	Georgetown
Guyana	Cricket Association-Clubs	Georgetown

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The University of The West Indies

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Guyana, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Bowling speed	Cricket fast bowlers' bowling speed measured using the Stalker Sport 2 radar gun	After 6 weeks of exercise training