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J. PRASOMSRI1, B. Thueman2, P. Yuenyong2, C. Thongnoon2, N. Korepongphaiboon2, S. Ariyawatcharin2
1Prince of Songkla University, Physical Therapy, Songkhla, Thailand, 2Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand
Background: Nowadays, the development of a training program for speed and agility in football players is increasing widely. Therefore resulting in the development of a variety of training styles, to increase the sports performance. Motor imagery is a new method that used collateral with physical training.
Purpose: The main objective of this study was to compare speed and agility after motor imagery training in university athletes and amateur athletes who received and did not receive motor imagery training for 2 weeks.
Methods: University athletes and amateur athletes were divided into 4 groups; university athletes who received and did not receive motor imagery, and amateur athletes who received and did not receive motor imagery. The only physical training program consists of routine physical training program plus watch video clips and listen to natural sounds for 15 minutes per day for 2 weeks. The motor imagery training program received 3 minutes of football training videos for 15 minutes of imagery phase per day for 2 weeks besides the routine physical training program.
Results: In this study, we collected data from university athletes who received and did not receive motor imagery for 7 and 5 players respectively, and amateur athletes who received and did not receive motor imagery for 8 and 6 players respectively. The result presented the positive changing in all variables after training sessions for 2 weeks in all groups. University athletes who received motor imagery group showed 120 percentage change at final testing in agility and 141 percentage change of speed at 20 meters in an amateur athlete group who received motor imagery. However, there is no significant difference between groups. On the other hand, after training for 2 weeks we found speed and agility performance improve significantly in both university and amateur athletes groups who received motor imagery.
Conclusion(s): This founding demonstrated the addition of the motor imagery training along with routine physical training to promote physical performance in athletes all experience level.
Implications: Motor imagery should be considered in the training program to be added or modified in routine training programs.
Funding, acknowledgements: The research was funding by the Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand.
Keywords: Football athletes, Motor imagery, Experience
Topic: Sport & sports injuries
Did this work require ethics approval? Yes
Institution: Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University,Thailand
Committee: Ethics Committee for Human Research
Ethics number: REC 61-348-30-2
All authors, affiliations and abstracts have been published as submitted.
