Developing agility using the blazepod system in university football team players

Developing agility using the blazepod system in university football team players

Grosu Bogdan-Marius

Mocanu Mircea-Dan

The subjects studied are 40 students from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports in Galați, divided into two groups of 20, the experimental group and the control group, all selected to form the student football team. To evaluate the subjects, we applied the following standard agility tests: the Illinois test (seconds); the 10×5 meter shuttle run (seconds); the T test (seconds). To perform the statistical analysis of the data, we used the IBM SPSS Statistics software package, version 28. For all statistical tests used, we chose a significance threshold of α = 0.05.

Based on the results obtained, the findings show that the use of the BlazePod system to develop agility in students who make up the university football team showed superior performance of the students in the experimental group compared to the students in the control group (p<0.05) in all tests performed.

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