Flywheel squats versus free weight high load squats for improving high velocity movements in football. A randomized controlled trial
ConclusionSquats carried out with FWs or BFWs where both are performed with MIVCs and combined with football sessions, were equally effective in improving sprint time and jump height in football players. The BFW group experienced a more than two-fold larger increase in maximal partial squat strength than the FW group in maximal partial squat strength. This presents FW RE as an alternative to BFW HL RE for improving high velocity movements in football.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:NCT04113031 (retrospectively registered, date: 02.10.2019).
Source: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation - Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research