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- Title
Effects of Plyometric Training on Physical Performance: An Umbrella Review.
- Authors
Kons, Rafael L.; Orssatto, Lucas B. R.; Ache-Dias, Jonathan; De Pauw, Kevin; Meeusen, Romain; Trajano, Gabriel S.; Dal Pupo, Juliano; Detanico, Daniele
- Abstract
Background: Plyometric training can be performed through many types of exercises involving the stretch-shortening cycle in lower limbs. In the last decades, a high number of studies have investigated the effects of plyometric training on several outcomes in different populations. Objectives: To systematically review, summarize the findings, and access the quality of published meta-analyses investigating the effects of plyometric training on physical performance. Design: Systematic umbrella review of meta-analyses. Data Sources: Meta-analyses were identified using a systematic literature search in the databases PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, SPORTDiscus, Web of Science, Cochrane Library and Scielo. Eligibility Criteria for Selecting Meta-analyses: Meta-analyses that examined the effects of plyometric training on physical fitness in different populations, age groups, and sex. Results: Twenty-nine meta-analyses with moderate-to-high methodological quality were included in this umbrella review. We identified a relevant weakness in the current literature, in which five meta-analyses included control group comparisons, while 24 included pre-to-post-effect sizes. Trivial-to-large effects were found considering the effects of plyometric training on physical performance for healthy individuals, medium-trivial effects for the sports athletes' groups and medium effects for different sports athletes' groups, age groups, and physical performance. Conclusion: The available evidence indicates that plyometric training improves most related physical fitness parameters and sports performance. However, it is important to outline that most meta-analyses included papers lacking a control condition. As such, the results should be interpreted with caution. PROSPERO number: CRD42020217918.
- Subjects
ONLINE information services; MEDICAL databases; CONFIDENCE intervals; SYSTEMATIC reviews; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); EXERCISE physiology; SPORTS; CYCLING; BODY movement; QUALITY assurance; PLYOMETRICS; MEDLINE; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems
- Publication
Sports Medicine - Open, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2199-1170
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s40798-022-00550-8