Whole body vibration and drop jumps induces post-activation performance enhancement

Purpose. Many studies have investigated the effect of whole body vibration (WbV) exercise on post-activation potentiation. It was reported that an intervention protocol of WbV combined with 5 drop jumps (DJs) led to an increase in twitch force, suggesting the occurrence of post-activation potentiati...

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Published in:Human movement Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 78 - 84
Main Authors: Dallas, George, Colson, Serge S., Pappas, Panagiotis, Dallas, Costas, Paradisis, Giorgos
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023
Termedia Publishing House
Subjects:
gymnasts
Life Sciences
plyometric exercise
post-activation potentiation
vibration
post-activation potentiation original paper
gymnasts plyometric exercise vibration post-activation potentiation original paper
gymnasts
vibration
plyometric exercise
ISSN:1899-1955, 0167-9457, 1899-1955, 1872-7646
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Summary:Purpose. Many studies have investigated the effect of whole body vibration (WbV) exercise on post-activation potentiation. It was reported that an intervention protocol of WbV combined with 5 drop jumps (DJs) led to an increase in twitch force, suggesting the occurrence of post-activation potentiation. the purpose of this study was to examine the acute effect of different warm-up interventions on countermovement jump (CMJ) performance by recording jump height, power, and take-off velocity in gymnasts. Methods. Overall, 10 adult gymnasts (mean age: 22.80 ± 1.75 years; body mass: 61.92 ± 8.65 kg; body height: 170.10 ± 8.65 cm) with 16.35 ± 5.68 years of training experience volunteered to participate in this study. the interventions were (i) WbV, (ii) no vibration, (iii) DJs, and (iv) WbV combined with DJs (WbVDJ). Over 4 distinct randomized testing sessions, the gymnasts performed pre-intervention tests comprising 3 CMJs, followed by one of the 4 interventions; after 8 min, they performed another set of 3 CMJs. Results. A significant interaction was observed between interventions for jump height and take-off velocity, leading to improvements (+4.82%, p < 0.05; +2.50%, p < 0.05, respectively) after WbVDJ only. No significant improvements were noted for WbV, DJs, or no vibration interventions. the implementation of WbVDJ was an effective stimulus leading to post-activation performance enhancement of CMJ in gymnasts. Conclusions. the WbVDJ intervention increased jump height of CMJ performance and take-off velocity of lower limbs. In addition, WbVDJ led to greater performance improvement compared with DJ intervention.
ISSN:1899-1955
0167-9457
1899-1955
1872-7646
DOI:10.5114/hm.2023.117211