Evaluation of the pre-planned and non-planned agility performance : comparison between individual and team sports

Maćkała, Krzysztof (author), Vodičar, Janez (author), Žvan, Milan (author), Križaj, Jožef (author), Stodółka, Jacek (author), Rauter, Samo (author), Čoh, Milan (author)

This study assessed differences in agility performance between athletes of team and individual sports by assessing change-of-direction speed (CODS) as pre-planned agility and reactive agility (RA) as non-planned in different spatial configurations. The study involved 36 individual (sprint, hurdles, jumping, tennis, and judo) and 34 team (soccer, basketball, and handball) athletes. CODS and RA were measured with a light-based reactive training system in a frontal (FR), universal (UN), semicircular (SC), and lateral (LA) design. Lower limb power and sprint performance were also measured in a 10 m single leg jump test and 15 m sprint. Individual athletes showed significantly better performance in three of the eight agility tests: LA-RA, UN-RA, and SC-CODS (p < 0.008, p < 0.036, and p < 0.027, respectively) and were found to present stronger correlations (p < 0.01) between jump test performance and the CODS condition. Team athletes showed stronger associations between sprint performance and the CODS condition. In the RA condition both jump and sprint performance showed stronger correlations in the group of individual athletes. Agility performance as measured by CODS and RA should improve with enhanced of motor proficiency. Finally, the tests applied in this experiment seem to be multidimensional, but require spatio-temporal adjustment for their implementation, so that they meet the requirements of the particular sport.

• Language: English
• Keywords: agility, reaction time, CODS, testing, athletic performance, cognition
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FŠ - Faculty of Sport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 14 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 17, iss. 3, art. 975
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-133238
• UDC: 796
• ISSN on article: 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17030975
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5650353
• Publication date in RUL: 18.11.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of environmental research and public health
• Shortened title: Int. j. environ. res. public health
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1660-4601
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1818965

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 04.02.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kolektivni športi, individualni športi, primerjava, spretnost, reakcijski čas, tehnika, taktika, testi, meritve