Clinical Trial: Effects of a Six-Week Change-of-Direction Repeated Sprint Training Program on Explosive Power and Agility in Youth Basketball Players

U.S., March 18 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07477379) titled 'Effects of a Six-Week Change-of-Direction Repeated Sprint Training Program on Explosive Power and Agility in Youth Basketball Players' on March 10.

Brief Summary: This randomized controlled study investigated the effects of a six-week change-of-direction repeated sprint training program on lower-limb explosive power and agility in youth basketball players. Repeated sprint ability and rapid changes of direction are essential physical performance components in basketball, as the sport requires frequent accelerations, decelerations, and multidirectional movements during gameplay.

Participants were randomly assigned to either an exper...