The Effect of Post-activation Potentiation Warm-up on 1-Km Sprint Cycling Time-trial Performance

Poster

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: 1-Km cycling is one of the fastest track cycling disciplines. Cyclists in this course travel one kilometer and their time are recorded. Performance is very important in this sport and cyclists and coaches use a lot of strategies so that the cyclist has the best performance in this competition so that he can record a better time. One of these strategies is a pre-race warm-up, with coaches using a variety of methods. Post-activation Potentiation (PAP) is a method used today before or during warm-up. It has been shown that strength training performed as a preconditioning activity to sprint events acutely improves sprint performance. This method is typically referred to as post-activation potentiation (PAP) and has also been shown to increase performance and power development. METHODS: Our statistical community is our cyclists and our statistical sample ten male cyclists, that were tested in two stages. In the first stage, they were randomly divided into two equal groups, one group performing standard protocol warm-up and the other group performing standard warm-up with Post-activation Potentiation (PAP) method. And in the next step, they did the opposite. First, the standard cycling warm-up protocol was 20 min with 70% MHR on the spool, followed by 2 repetitions of 30 sec of half-squat movement and 30 sec of rest in 4 sets, one minute of rest between sets. And after 10 min, the record of 1-km was done. The mean of the results was also calculated by the Paired-Samples T Test method. RESULTS: Examination of the research results showed that relationship between performing warm-up with Post-activation Potentiation (PAP) on improvement during the 1-Km sprint cycling time-trial performance, there was a significant difference in the scores for Standard Warm-up               (M=72.3, SD=2.13) and Standard Warm-up with Post-activation Potentiation (PAP) (M=73.8, SD=1.75) conditions; t(9)=-7.90, p= 0.001” DISCUSSION: The statistical results of the study showed that there is a significant relationship between the performance of Post-activation Potentiation (PAP) movement and the performance of speed cyclists. According to the results of the study, to improve the performance of speed cyclists and their better performance in the 1-Km race, it is recommended to cycling coaches assign a warm-up program along with the implementation of a special Post-activation Potentiation (PAP) protocol.