Effects of Functional Training on Strength, Power, Agility, Anaerobic Capacity, Punch Speed, and Punch Power for Amateur Boxer
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Background and Aim: Developing athletes for excellence is necessary to manage training systematically. Functional training in athletes is a training that affects strength, power, and balance, this allows athletes to perform and control their skills to the fullest and it is a training method that is suitable for training to prepare athletes in the training stage to train well. Therefore, the researcher is interested in studying functional training with amateur boxing athletes. The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the effects of a functional training program on amateur boxers' strength, power, agility, anaerobic capacity, punch speed, and punch power; and 2) to compare between control and experimental group specific on strength power, agility, anaerobic capacity, punch speed and punch power for an amateur teen male boxer.
Materials and Methods: In this research, types of research are quasi experimental-designs that control-group interrupted time-series design. The sample for this study is 30 male boxers aged 15-18 from the Bengbu boxing team in Anhui Province. They are divided into an experimental group and a control group, with 15 participants in each group. They were examined for strength, power, agility, anaerobic capacity, punch speed, and punch power on the pretest, after week 4, and post-test, respectively. Then, the 8-week functional training program was administered to the experimental group three times per week. The control group adopts traditional strength training. Data analysis techniques included mean and standard deviation, independent t-test, and one-way ANOVA repeated measures. A Post hoc analysis using Bonferroni was conducted to establish significant differences within the groups (p<.05).
Results: The results show that both groups with pre-test, after week 4th and post-test such as Strength (kg): control group was 77.88±11.09, 79.24±11.01and 80.96±10.82 and the experimental group was 80.08±11.01, 82.14±10.73, and 84.65±10.68. Power (cm); control group was 57.13±3.62, 58.6±3.22 and 59.66±2.94 and experimental group was 57.26±5.67, 59.06±4.83, and 61.00±4.30. Agility (sec): control group was 13.68±0.73, 13.42±0.69 and 13.25±0.66, and experimental group was 13.67±0.93, 13.24±0.84 and12.64±0.61. Anaerobic capacity (watt): control group was 514.24±103.46, 525.39±105.32 and 536.56±105.51 and the experimental group was 496.03±112.15, 512.14±105.92 and 543.47±103.29. Punch speed (m/sec): control group was 4.01±0.35, 4.14±0.36 and 4.26±0.34, and experimental group was 3.91±0.51, 4.18±0.46 and 4.70±0.38. Punch power (watts): control group was 1097.60±146.71, 1106.08±146.72 and 1122.14±144.71, and the experimental group was 1098.25±167.89, 1123.41±167.22 and 1261.18±163.26, respectively. There was a significant difference between the group on agility, speed punch, and power punch (*p<.05), but strength, power, and anaerobic capacity were not a significant difference. However, there were significant differences within the experimental group on strength, power, agility, anaerobic capacity, speed punch, and power punch with pre-test, after week 4th, and post-test, respectively (*p<.05).
Conclusion: (1) Functional training can develop the strength, explosive force, agility, anaerobic ability, punching speed, and punching strength of amateur boxers, and 2) functional training is more effective than traditional strength training in developing the explosive force, punching speed and punching strength of amateur boxers.
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