Investigation of acute effects of different warm-up protocols on agility in footballers

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the acute effects of different warm-up protocols on football agility. Materials and Method: 16 volunteer football players who played in U-16 team of 79 Mildiz Sports Club of Izmir Mavisehir participated in this research. Height and weight measurements of the participants were taken. Dynamic warming and static warming were applied to the participants at different times and agility test, 20 meter speed running, flexibility test, vertical jump test, back and leg strength tests were applied. All these data were analyzed in SPSS 22.0 program running under windows 10 operating system. For analysis; Paired Simple T Test was applied. Results: The average height of the 16 participants who participated in the study was 170.81 cm, the average weight was 61.93 kg and the average age was determined as 15.12. In this study, vertical jump, agility test, elasticity test, back force test, leg force test, and 20 meter sprint tests were applied after static warming. One week after the measurements, vertical jump test, agility test, flexibility test, back force test, leg force test, 20 meter sprint test were applied to the same group after dynamic warming and the results were recorded. Conclusions: As a result of the analysis, according to the findings; In static and dynamic heating applications there was a statistically significant difference between 20 meters speed test, vertical jump test and leg streght test showed a istatisticalliy signicant difference (p <0.05), agility test, flexibility test and tread strength tests were not statistically significant (p> 0.05). According to these results; It can be said that different warming protocols applied in football players do not make a significant difference on agility. Key Words: Dynamic Warming, Static Warming, Football, Agility