Relationships between Balance and Functional Performance in Football Players

• Authors: Nurtekin Erkmen , Halil Taşkin , Ahmet Sanioğlu , Turgut Kaplan , Dede Baştürk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present study was to examine the relationships between balance performance as measured by the Balance Error Scoring System and functional performance in football players. Twenty-two football players from University League Final Group in Turkey (age 23.05 ± 1.65 years, height 176.58 ± 6.99 cm, weight 68.80 ± 7.00 kg) volunteered to participate in the study. Postural performance was measured by the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS). For functional performance, standing broad jump, triple-hop, vertical jump, four-line sprint and three-corner run test were used. There was not a statistically significant relationship among the all BESS scores and triplehop in non-dominant leg, power, four-line sprint, and three-corner run performances (p<0.05). Triple-hop in dominant leg performance correlated with foam surface, tandem leg and total BESS score (r = 0.755, p < 0.01; r = 0.664, p < 0.05; r = 0.713, p< 0.01, respectively). Standing broad jump performance correlated with foam surface, tandem leg and total BESS score (r = 0.737, p < 0.01; r = 0.692, p < 0.05; r = 0.617, p< 0.05, respectively). There was a statistically significant relationship among the single leg BESS score and vertical jumping performance (r = -0.596, p<0.05). In conclusion, the activities requiring explosive power may reflect the ability of managing a balanced posture but the activities in which time period is longer may not.

Keywords

EN

postural control; jumping; acceleration; anaerobic endurance; footbal

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 26
• Pages: 21-29

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2010

online

17 - 1 - 2011

Contributors

author

Nurtekin Erkmen

• Selcuk University School of Physical Education and Sport, Konya, Turkey

author

Halil Taşkin

• Selcuk University School of Physical Education and Sport, Konya, Turkey

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Ahmet Sanioğlu

• Selcuk University School of Physical Education and Sport, Konya, Turkey

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Turgut Kaplan

• Selcuk University School of Physical Education and Sport, Konya, Turkey

author

Dede Baştürk

• Ahi Evran University School of Physical Education and Sport, Kirşehir, Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10078-010-0044-z