Acute Effect of Different Stretching Protocols on Flexibility, Yoyo IR-1 and Repeated Sprint Ability Performance

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the acute effect of different stretching protocols on flexibility, Yo-Yo IR-1 andrepeated sprint performance. The sample group of this study consists of 15 male who were doing regular exercise at least 3years. This group performed 5 different stretching protocols on non-consecutive days. Stretching protocols were determined asfollows: light jogging for only 5 minutes (NS), light jogging and static strectching (SS), light jogging and dynamic stretching(DS), light jogging and static + dynamic stretching (SDS), light jogging and dynamic + static stretching (DSS). Altoughparticipants did not have a statistically significant effect on flexibility performance (p> 0.05), the best flexibility value was SS.Repeated sprint performance (best) values of different stretching protocols did not have statistically significant effect onrepeated sprint performance (moderate, worst, decline, post fatigue index) values (p> 0.05). Repeated sprint performance wasfound to have a statistically significant effect on Borg values and HR mean values (p