Investigation of the effect of Core exercises applied to football players on functional movement scores

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of Core Exercises applied to 14-15 age group football players for 8 weeks on Functional Movement Scores. In the study, a pre-test-post-test control group model was used from quantitative research methods. 30 active athletes registered to Çankırı Eldivan Municipality Sports Football Club and who received informed consent forms from their families were included in our study. Athletes were randomly divided into 2 groups, 15 of them were determined as the research group and 15 as the control group. The research group was given core exercises as well as football training for 8 weeks, while the control group continued only football training. Physical measurements and functional movement test (FHT) values were taken from the groups before and after the study and recorded. IBM SPSS 22.0 statistical package program was used in the statistical analysis of the obtained data. When the findings were examined, it was seen that there was a significant difference in the variables of shoulder mobility, obstacle step, active straight leg raise between our research groups (p<0.05). It was seen that there was no significant difference in other variables such as deep squat, in-line lunge, trunk balance push-up and rotary balance between our groups (p>0.05). As a result, although it was observed that core exercises applied to football players were effective on some functional movement scores, we think that conducting our study on different branch athletes, for a longer period of time and with more participants would make more serious contributions to the literature.