Profiling in sepak takraw: physical fitness profile of junior state level sepak takraw players
Physical fitness has contribution in a player’s performance. Components of physical fitness are speed, agility, muscular strength, explosive power, flexibility and aerobic fitness. These components are important because sepak takraw skills require high agility, precision, timing and leg strength...
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/62314/ http://eprints.usm.my/62314/1/NURATIQAH%20BALQIS%20BINTI%20MOHAMAD%20AKHSAN%20-%20e.pdf |
| Summary: | Physical fitness has contribution in a player’s performance. Components of physical
fitness are speed, agility, muscular strength, explosive power, flexibility and aerobic fitness.
These components are important because sepak takraw skills require high agility, precision,
timing and leg strength during spiking and receiving. They need to identify the physical demands
and their capacity to respond to those demands to achieve successful performance. Since few
studies which analyze physical fitness components have been found, this study was carried out to
explore the physical fitness characteristics of state level sepak takraw player. Thirty male sepak
takraw payers (age: 14.6±1.25) participated in this study. They represented the state of Pulau
Pinang and are currently active state players. The subjects were tested for their anthropometry
and fitness components which consist of speed (10m sprint test), flexibility (sit and reach test),
agility (T-test), explosive power (vertical jump test), muscular strength (back and leg strength
test) and aerobic fitness (beep test). All data were analyzed using one sample T-test. The results
stated that the state level sepak takraw players were significantly shorter (155.68±1.75 cm) and
lighter (47.45±9.11 kg) compared to the Asean School Game (ASG) player (p<0.05). In addition,
they also have a better speed (2.06±0.19 min) and agility (12.27±1.26 min) than the ASG player.
No significant difference (p>0.05) was found in flexibility between both groups. Alternatively,
ASG player score better results in explosive power (-20.33 kg), muscular strength (-24.77 kg)
and aerobic fitness (-20Vo2max)- As a conclusion, the current finding is the ASG player shows
better results in explosive power, muscular strength and aerobic fitness compared to the state
level players. Meanwhile, state level players show better results in speed and agility. These
finding can be used for current players to evaluate their fitness parameters. |
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