Efeito agudo da facilitação neuromuscular proprioceptiva e do flexionamento estático na agilidade de atletas de futebol americano

Abstract

Introduction: American football is a sport that requires travel speed, reaction and muscle power to perform the technical and tactical actions. Objective: To investigate the acute effect of Neuromuscular Facilitation and static bending the extensor muscle group knee in agility football athletes. Methods: The sample consisted of (n= 24) amateur athletes from football, randomly divided into three groups (G1- Control, G2- Static Flexing and G3 - Neuromuscular Facilitation). To characterize the sample was evaluated weight and height to obtain BMI. The percentage of fat (%BF) was evaluated by the thickness of skin folds (DC). To evaluate the intensity of bending and FNP method was used the PERFLEX. In the evaluation of flexibility was used goniometry technique. Agility was evaluated by the Shuttle Run Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics: Mean and standard deviation and comparison of data was performed by analysis of variance by ANOVA and post hoc Tukey. Results: In the characterization of the sample were no significant differences between groups in the variables of age, weight, height, triceps DC, BMI and flexibility by goniometry, only in DC abdomen, and suprailiac %BF, DC significant differences were found. In the intra and inter-group comparison of pre and post-tests of agility significant differences were found. Conclusion: It was observed that the flexing and FNP acutely no significant influence on the quality of the agility of football athletes.