Impact of A Six Week Speed Training on Speed and Agility of Footballers

The purpose of this study is to experiment the impact of a 6-week sprint training on the agility, speed and features of footballers. Sixteen soccer players had (Age = 22.12 ± 2.89) participated to the study voluntarily. he agility and speed characteristics of the athletes were determined by the HUFA test. After applying the HUFA test, the athletes were split into 2 subgroups of 8 athletes in each group. Experiment group 1 continued to have race training sessions during 6 weeks, whereas Experiment group 2 had sprint training program three days a week in addition to the race training sessions. he data was analyzed in the SPSS 21 program with the usage of Mann Whitney-U and Wilcoxon Signed tests via calculating the descriptive statistics. A significant difference with a level of p<0.05 was found between the agility and speed variables of Group1 and Group2 based on the intra group and intergroup test analysis.In summary the speed, agility and the maximal speed were investigated and it was determined that 6-week speed training has an impact on speed and agility (p<0.05). It was determined that additional speed trainings next to the race training programs have an impact on speed and agility.